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«Here Comes the Sun»,
Sonnenseite.com, 31.12.2025
Bill McKibben is an author,
environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature,
the first book for a common audience about global warming...., Bill McKibben’s Summary and Biography ...,
350.org
See
Bill McKippen’s webpage with his biography, books, events, articles (i.e.
Solar Is Liberation, 30.7.2025) and
initiatives...
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Here Comes the Sun
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«From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of
the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.
Our
climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the
first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is
also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the
cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in
history — if we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a
chance.
«Here
Comes the Sun» tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun
and wind — and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their
politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who
installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a
year to the world’s sixth-largest economy —
California — nearly halving its use
of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of
plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more
than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the
world on saner and more humane grounds. You can’t hoard solar energy or hold
it in reserves — it’s available to all.
There’s no guarantee we can make this change in time, but there is a hope—in
McKibben’s eyes, our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to
the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world.
Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant’s-worth of
solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt the poles,
poison our bodies and drive global inequality. 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, Bill McKibben tells the story of the spike in power from
the sun and wind. McKibben 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. Getting there means
overcoming obstacles like Big Oil, but McKibben sees a chance for a new
civilisation that looks to the sun as the star that fuels our world.»
Fully quoted from «Here Comes the
Sun» by Norton & Company 2025 on
Sonnenseite.com, 31.12.2025. Ask
for Bill McKippen’s book «Here Comes the Sun – A Last Chance for the
Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization» at your
library or bookstore, and see the links and references on
Sonnenseite.com.
Also, you might be interested in reading
the article «Solar
Is Liberation»
by Bill McKippen, see some extracts here...
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Fully quoted
from «Here Comes the Sun» by Norton & Company 2025
on
Sonnenseite.com, 31.12.2025
See also
Here Comes the Sun - A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for
Civilization with book tour,
Bill McKibben, 2025
See also
«4.6
Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment, In the past two years,
without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s
energy system.»,
an article in "The New Yorker" drawn from
«Here Comes the
Sun»
by Bill
McKibben, 9.7.2025
See also
«Energy
transition as a job engine, The energy transition is a job engine
that is growing worldwide and creating many new jobs, especially in the
solar and wind energy sectors. Examples ... The sun is winning – the solar
age is beginning. So what are we waiting for?»,
Dr. Franz Alt, 03.01.2026
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Bill McKibben is an author,
environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature,
the first book for a common audience about global warming. ..., Bill McKibben’s Summary and Biography ...,
350.org
See
Bill McKippen’s webpage with his biography, books, events, articles
(i.e.
Solar Is Liberation,
30.7.2025) and
initiatives...
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Solar Is Liberation
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«People are starting to realize where the energy future lies — as United
Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week, “The sun is
rising on a clean energy age.” Sun, wind, and batteries made up 95 percent
of new electric generation last year around the world. In May, China was
putting up a gigawatt of solar power — the rough equivalent of a coal-fired
power plant — every eight hours. No energy source has ever grown at anything
like this pace. ...
Let’s start with this. Sunlight is everywhere — it falls on the earth in
almost unimaginable quantities, bathing us in a steady supply of energy that
far exceeds anything we could ever conspire to actually use. Our local star
already provides us with warmth and light and photosynthesis, and now it
would like to give us all the power we need, and then do the same tomorrow,
ad infinitum. ...
Across Europe and Scandinavia, there are thousands of churches, community
groups, and labor unions that own and profit from solar and wind
installations. Even in this country, when the Texas legislature this spring
tried — at the bidding of the fossil fuel industry — to shut down a surging
boom in renewables, representatives from rural communities appeared in
Austin to say: This is what funds our schools, this is what keeps our
taxes under control in our remote county. And they won!
The
starkest way to say this is: Even humans will have a hard time figuring out
how to fight a war over sunshine ...
You don’t need
to actually worship the sun, of course (I’m a Methodist). But we should
regard it with affection — it was St. Francis, after all, who wrote a
canticle to Brother Sun; the last pope, who took Francis’ name, also
borrowed from that poem for the title of his Laudato Si’ encyclical on
climate change. ...
George Harrison ... “Here Comes the Sun” has
been streamed 1.6 billion times on Spotify, twice as many as “Hey Jude” or
“Let it Be” or “Yesterday.” ...
We live, it bears repeating, in a harsh moment
on our world, where power and inequality and hate and aggression seem almost
terminally out of control ...
It doesn’t need to be that way. For the first
time since the moon shot of the 1960s, we have a group project that could
truly capture our imagination — a project to end combustion and replace it
with the power of the sun, a project that this time could extend beyond our
national borders to involve all humanity. And this time it’s not about
sending two people to a different heavenly body — it’s about bringing our
local star close to earth, where it could save some of the beauty of the
world we were born into, at the last moment before the climate crisis closes
in. ...»
Fully quoted from
article
Solar Is Liberation - As Sun Day approaches, solar is surging globally —
good news for the climate, and for everything else, Bill McKibben,
30.7.2025 |
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Fully quoted from article
Solar Is Liberation - As Sun Day approaches, solar is surging globally —
good news for the climate, and for everything else, Bill McKibben,
30.7.2025
See also
Climate 100 List: Bill McKibben, the unassuming Vermonter who built not one,
but two, game-changing movements, «The journalist, author, and founder
of 350.org and Third Act tells The Independent about the moment he
knew he was onto ‘something that was going to turn everything about the
world upside down’. His writing has been likened to a modern-day Henry David
Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson but Bill McKibben’s path to becoming one of
the world’s leading environmental journalists, and the founder of not one –
but two – climate movements, was far from guaranteed. ...», The Independent,
18.9.2024
Ask
for Bill McKippen’s book «Here Comes the Sun – A Last Chance for the
Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization» at your
library or bookstore, and see
the links and references on
Sonnenseite.com.
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«The Blue Flood ... is a
beautiful reminder of our
responsibility to preserve
the
world for future generations.»,
The GB Weekly (page 9),
30.08.2024
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P.S.
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The Blue
Flood ...
You can try to sing this
poem on
the lovely melody of "What
a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong.
I love Blue
in the sky,
I love Blue
in the sea,
I love
Green
on the land,
that's how it's supposed to be.
And I think to myself, What
a wonderful world...
We
should take care and guard it,
from
the beginning, that's how it had been.
We should
not flood the land with water Blue,
but keep the country
Green,
yes Green.
The poem "The Blue
Flood" was created upon the New Zealand
elections held on 14.10.2023.
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