NY Times: ‘The Old Climate Activism Playbook No Longer Works, What Else Can?’ – Admits ‘Americans regularly place climate near the bottom of the list’ of concerns
By Admin
September 5, 2025
3:36 pm
Weepy Bill McKibben Strives for Relevance
By Charles Rotter
Bill McKibben has always been the climate movement’s most reliable prophet of doom, though never a particularly cheerful one. From his 1989 bestseller The End of Nature to his endless speeches about looming catastrophe, he has made a career out of telling Americans to stop enjoying themselves.
Here’s some backstory on Weepy Bill
Now, in 2025, the New York Times has generously profiled him again, portraying him not as the triumphant leader of a mass uprising, but as a weary relic of a fading movement, sipping tea on his porch in Vermont and gesturing toward solar panels like holy relics of a religion whose congregation has stopped showing up.
The article begins with a pastoral scene that would make Thoreau blush:
“At the end of a long dirt road through Vermont’s Green Mountains, Bill McKibben sat on his screened-in porch, surrounded by birdsong and the drone of buzzing insects. The July sun beat through a canopy of trees. McKibben sipped a cup of green tea and pointed outside, to the ground just past the edge of the house, where an array of solar panels tilted toward the late-morning sky. The roof, too, was loaded with panels of different vintages. ‘I’ve been putting them up at intervals for a quarter century,’ he said.”
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