It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the climate. But we’ve got two big things on our side

Exposing the Big Game's avatarThe Extinction Chronicles

Bill McKibben

One is the astonishing fall in the cost of renewable energy. The other is the huge growth in the citizens’ movements demanding action

Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore wind farm, in east Ayrshire and south Lanarkshire.
‘Vested interest is slowly shifting towards the ever-larger renewable sector.’ Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore wind farm, in east Ayrshire and south Lanarkshire.Composite: Guardian

Fri 15 Oct 2021 04.00 EDT

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So many things have broken the wrong way since the Paris climate accords were agreed in mid-December of 2015. Within eight weeks Donald Trump had won his first presidential primary, an insane comet streaking across the night sky, trailed by outliers like Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The world has enduredopéra bouffedistractions like Brexit, and the true paralyzing emergency of the pandemic.https://www.theguardian.com/email/form/plaintone/green-lightSign up for our weekly environment newsletter, Green Light.

And yet here we…

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