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 if it accelerates 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.
