Source: The Crucial Years
by Bill Mckibben
“Tuesday was one of those days when you can feel the world shifting. The think tank Ember reported that for the first half of 2025 renewable energy produced more electricity than coal. More to the point, solar and wind grew so fast that they covered all the growth in demand for electricity so far this year, with room to spare. That means that fossil fuel emissions for producing electricity plateaued (even fell slightly) over the first half of the year. It’s an epochal moment: It demonstrates that the clean energy transition is not destined to be the slow, dragged-out affair that most analysts would have predicted even five years ago. ‘The fall overall of fossil may be small, but it is significant,’ said one of the Ember researchers.” (10/08/25)
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/something-extraordinary-just-happened