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Here Comes the Sun
A Last Chance For The Climate And A Fresh Chance For Civilization
Bill McKibben4.8
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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 McKibben tells the story of our sudden 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 on saner and more humane grounds. Getting there means overcoming obstacles like Big Oil, but McKibben sees a chance 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 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 McKibben tells the story of our sudden 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 on saner and more humane grounds. Getting there means overcoming obstacles like Big Oil, but McKibben sees a chance for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world.
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"Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben explains the advantages of solar power and wind generators while refuting the fossil fuel industry's arguments against them. Narrator Patrick Lawlor performs this encouraging expos� with vocal skill and intelligence that makes every facet of this exceptional writing shine. His maturity as a narrator allows him to apply his impressive phrasing tools to every nuance of meaning and passion in McKibben's authoritative writing. Exposing the lies perpetrated by the fossil fuel industry and the politicians they control, McKibben offers hope that the decreasing cost of solar energy will create the political will to face the facts and remove obstacles to using this and other clean energy sources. McKibben delivers a fact-filled overview of climate change and its remedies. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine"
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