Bill McKibben

Guest writer

Bill McKibben is the founder of climate change campaign 350.org, a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and the author of the new book Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?.

NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured imagery of the fires and the billowing smoke off the edge of Australia on New Year’s Day. Photo: NASA

If Australia was a planet all on its own

Australia cannot blame the destruction on others; in any moral calculation, it has done this to itself.

By Bill McKibben | 10th January, 2020