by Ed Maurer

Here comes the Sun is Bill McKibben’s well-timed effort to get us off our duffs and get real about climate change. Global warming is accelerating just when the switch to renewable energy is accelerating, too! For a quick look at his arguments, read his short article in the spring edition of Sierra Magazine and a longer conversation (26 min) on YouTube. McKibben’s starting point is that “in the early 2020s we crossed a visible line when the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel.” He almost lyrically writes that “we’re at the moment where we could and should break the habit of burning things. We need to stop the fires in our power plants and factories, beneath the hoods of our cars, in our garages and kitchens, replacing those blazes with the fire of the sun.” Read the entire review.