“Thanks to solar energy, we can finally glimpse the rapid decarbonization of our fossil world.”
Interview: American journalist Bill McKibben was one of the first to warn about global warming, and for a long time, he only had bad news to report. But now he's become optimistic. Interview.
Interview by Rémi Noyon
Bill McKibben arrested during a protest in New York City in July 2024. LAURA BRETT/ZUMA/SIPA
Bill McKibben is one of the most distinguished veterans of the climate cause. A tireless journalist and activist, he took up the issue of "global warming" in the late 1980s, even before the first IPCC report, when climatologist James Hansen had just been questioned by the US Congress.
Since then, he's been involved in every fight: he co-founded 350.org, fought the Keystone XL pipeline, protested, organized, received death threats, was imprisoned, and received the "alternative Nobel Prize." In short, he's done everything he can to mobilize public opinion on this issue in the United States. For a long time...
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