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DESCRIPTION:For our June, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first four 
 chapters of Here Comes the Sun, by Bill McKinnen (Amazon) (Norton).  For 
 our July meeting we will finish the book.\n\nOur climate, and our 
 democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound 
 the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of 
 possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on 
 the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history―if we can 
 keep accelerating the pace, we have a chance.\nHere Comes the Sun tells 
 the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind―and the 
 desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold 
 this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar 
 panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to the 
 world’s sixth-largest economy―California―nearly halving its use of 
 natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of 
 plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more 
 than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the 
 world on saner and more humane grounds. You can’t hoard solar energy or 
 hold it in reserves―it’s available to all.\nThere’s no guarantee we 
 can make this change in time, but there is a hope―in McKibben’s eyes, 
 our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every 
 day, as the star that fuels our world.\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area hosts this 
 non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic 
 thinking. Our first book was  Doughnut Economics, and our most recent 
 books were Pacific Circuit, A Paradise Built in Hell, What’s Left – 3 
 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor 
 Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list 
 see here.\n\n   \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/05/09/18886125.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Here Comes the Sun, by Bill McKibben
LOCATION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite.  All are welcome!\n\n
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