The World Turned Upside Down

It’s embarrassing, really. The richest nations in the world got rich by burning fossil fuels. And now that it’s way past time to fix the mess, they won’t lead. As Bill McKibben writes: «If there’s going to be a solution, for now it’s mostly going to come from the poorer nations of the world.» This detail had my jaw drop: Last year, China built so many wind turbines and solar panels, the steel they used for it would have been enough to build a Golden Gate Bridge on every working day of every week that year.