Tag Archives: McKibben

Yesterday was one of those days when you can feel the world shifting. The thinktank Ember reported that for the first half of 2025 renewable energy produced more electricity than coal. More to the point, solar and wind grew so fast that they covered all the growth in demand for electricity so far this year, with room to spare. That …

“Not everything that is faced can be changed,” James Baldwin famously explained in 1962, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” At the time the late author, who is profiled in a new biography publishing Tuesday, had been talking of a writer’s responsibility to grapple with the real, gritty details of life, racial and structural inequities and all. …