From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.
Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant’s–worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt our poles, poison our bodies, and drive our global inequality. And it is no longer necessary: For the first time in 700, 000 years, we know how to catch the sun’s rays and convert them into energy.
In Here Comes the Sun, world-renowned author Bill Mc Kibben tells the story of our sudden spike in power from the sun and wind. Mc Kibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy, which, if it accelerates, gives us a chance not just to limit climate change’s damage, but to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. Getting there means overcoming obstacles like Big Oil, but Mc Kibben sees a chance for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world.
About the author
Bill Mc Kibben is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Falter, and Deep Economy. Founder of Third Act, a project organizing people over sixty for progressive change, he lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.
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