Here Comes the Sun
A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
25 September 2026
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
From an acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic and political future
Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant’s–worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt the poles, poison our bodies and drive global inequality. It is no longer necessary: for the first time in 700,000 years, we know how to catch the sun’s rays and convert them into energy.
In Here Comes the Sun, Bill McKibben tells the story of the spike in power from the sun and wind. McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy, which gives us a chance not just to limit climate change’s damage but to reorder the world. Getting there means overcoming obstacles like Big Oil but McKibben sees a chance for a new civilisation that looks to the sun as the star that fuels our world.
Reviews
"Terrific… [McKibben] perhaps has done more than anyone else to raise alarms about climate change." — Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
"A book with an encouragingly positive story to tell… like all [Mckibben's] best work, [Here Comes the Sun] ends with a call to activism in pursuit of a better world. The difference this time is that technology offers a clear path to achieving it." — Jon Turney, Literary Review
"Stirring and closely argued… [Here Comes the Sun] is visionary." — James Dinneen, New Scientist
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