This is The Guardian.
Today, the environmentalist Bill McKibben on how solar energy could save the planet.
2025 has already seen record-breaking heat waves in Europe,
severe flooding in Pakistan and South Sudan,
and deadly wildfires in Los Angeles, a series of disasters exacerbated by global heating.
But during his address at the UN General Assembly in New York last week,
President Trump presented an alternative view.
Higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, this climate change,
it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion.
Trump has long been a critic of climate science and policies aimed at transitioning the world to renewable energies like wind and solar.
But in front of an audience of nations,
many of whom are on the front line of the climate disaster,
this was his most expansive criticism to date.
I've been right about everything.
And I'm telling you that if you don't get away from the green energy scam,
your country is going to fail.
It can all feel like a dark picture,
but beyond the politics, something astonishing is happening around the world.
This sudden, dramatic, and largely unheralded upsurge over the last 36 months in clean energy.
from the sun and the wind and batteries.