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Bill McKibben: The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
10 Jul 2026 | Abstracted from NY Times
Bill McKibben argues that despite worsening climate impacts, the world has reached a turning point: solar, batteries and electrification are becoming cheaper and scaling faster than fossil fuels. He contends the challenge is now political, not technological, warning U.S. policies risk ceding clean-energy leadership to China while urging faster deployment of renewables and modernized grids to accelerate decarbonization.
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