Here Comes the Sun Quotes

“Sometime in the early part of the 2020s we crossed an invisible line where the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel. That’s not yet common knowledge—we still think of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines as “alternative energy,” as if they were the Whole Foods of power, nice but pricey. In fact—and more so with each passing month—they are the Costco of energy, inexpensive and available in bulk.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“That disconnection has only deepened and grown more dangerous—what”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Emergencies demand urgency. If you put up a field of solar panels now, they don't have to be there forever... maybe someday we will develop small, cheap, safe fusion reactors and we can take them down. But if you *don't* put up a field of solar panels now, then the world will break.”
― Bill McKibben (Author), Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Perovskite”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Over the course of 2024, he reported on New Year’s Day, the state had used 25 percent less natural gas to generate electricity than it had the year before, a reduction that by the spring of 2025 had grown to 43 percent. That’s the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in 40 years of writing about our predicament.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Which is the point. The world has exactly one path available to make the rapid changes that the climate crisis requires, and that path is sun, wind, and batteries. They are available right now, in scale, at affordable price.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“about 12 percent of homes in Arizona have solar panels on the roof, compared with about 16 percent in cold and northern Vermont.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“For households, the trinity of efficient appliances is an electric car or bike, a heat pump—and an induction cooktop.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“on the verge of realizing that the sun, which already provides us light and warmth and photosynthesis, is also willing to provide us the power we need to run our lives. We are on the verge of turning to the heavens for energy instead of to hell. It won’t happen automatically, and I don’t know if we will do it, at least in the short window physics is giving us to deal with climate change.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization