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Here Comes the Sun - A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization - cover
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Here Comes the Sun - A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

Bill McKibben

Narrator Patrick Lawlor

Publisher: HighBridge Audio

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Summary

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.
Duration: about 8 hours (07:36:40)
Publishing date: 2025-08-19; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2025. Copyright Statment: —