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Bill McKibben

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Bill McKibben, a scholar in environmental sciences at Middlebury College and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a co-founder of 350.org.

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  1. A Harder Road for Climate Justice?
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    A Harder Road for Climate Justice?

    Sep 12, 2022 Alab Mirasol Ayroso, et al. consider what recent global developments will mean for COP27 in Egypt this November.

  2. Our Responsibility to Climate Migrants
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    Our Responsibility to Climate Migrants

    Jul 15, 2021 Bill McKibben urges the United States to provide more protection for Central Americans displaced by extreme weather.

  3. Climate Crunch Time
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    Climate Crunch Time

    Sep 29, 2020 Bill McKibben interviewed by Elmira Bayrasli about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement 50 years after the first Earth Day.

  4. Stop Insuring Climate Disaster
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    Stop Insuring Climate Disaster

    May 5, 2017 Bill McKibben calls on underwriters to follow the French firm AXA's lead and repudiate fossil-fuel projects.

  5. Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Lies
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    Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Lies

    Oct 8, 2015 Kelle Louaillier & Bill McKibben argue that there is no place for the fossil-fuel industry in climate policymaking.

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    Protests of Despair

    Slavoj Žižek sees the pro-Palestinian student demonstrations as a signal of a much deeper, widespread malaise.
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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

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    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.

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