Mr. McKibben is one of those lucky writers whose revelation - that human pollution and habitat damage is everywhere, from abyssal sea plains to the stratosphere - resulted in a bestselling book The End of Nature. This bought him a seat in the Important Voices Sunday media lineup and the coveted Name-Your-Price opinion writer stable. But maintaining that seat comes at a price.
And that stable is where this especially large shovelful of manure comes from. Not Bill the bringer of light, but Bill the tamed sycophant. From bemoaning the End of Nature, Bill is now calling for the End of Nurture. Abandon GAIA, that silly old cow! She's dried up and heading for the knacker anyway!
There is no time to waste! Away with healing your pathetic little Island and its harbors!
But Bill isn't _quite_sure.
"Sears Island is undoubtedly a treasured place for many people." he ponders, his dome fairly glowing with the fury of the mentations within. "[T]he development of a 100-acre port would undoubtedly transform the setting - Something I would ordinarily oppose...."
But - and this is surely Governor Mills one liner insert: "There simply are no other East Coast locations that meet the physical requirements, including size, needed to build out this industry at the pace and scale that the investors the climate crisis demands."
Uneasily, Bill suspects there is "undoubtedly" SOMETHING about that island that enthralls the locals. But with his vast mind and Olympian wisdom and global perspective, he speaks the words of Letting Go. Of sacrificing to the hunger of the Powers, as a kindly subdiety of his level should tell the mortals. Sacrifice your land. Your homes. Your hopes! Even that may not be enough to satisfy the Changers of the Climate!
More inshore offshore windports will stave off the existential crisis of climate change " he intones" and money. Lots of money. For everyone. Unions workers Millionaires like himself The rabble banging at the gates.
"Let's not miss our shot," he warns, He should know. That golden ring only comes around so often, Unless you shoot the messenger and loot it for yourself. Bill got that gold once, it transformed him into a Giant striding the earth Or at least being driven about it.
It is revealing yet sad that McKibben - now comfortably on a lower rung of the ruling class - ,famously refuses to reveal his investment portfolio neither its size nor his preferred stocks , other than that it does not include oil or other carbon stocks.
There may not be "black gold" in the McKibbenian holdings But minerals, defense stocks? Who can say?
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