Some rare good climate news: the fossil fuel industry is weaker than ever | Bill McKibben

From Wall Street to the pope, many increasingly see fossil fuels as anything but a sure bet. That gives us reason to hopeIf you’re looking for good news on the climate front, don’t look to the Antarctic. Last week’s spate of studies documenting that its melt rates had tripled is precisely the kind of data that underscores the almost impossible urgency of the moment.And don’t look to Washington DC, where the unlikely survival of the EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, continues to prove the political power of the fossil fuel industry. It’s as if he’s on a reality show where the premise is to see how much petty corruption one man can get away with.And the third problem for the fossil fuel industry? That would be the climate movement Related: The pipeline is surely in some people's best interest. But it's not what's best for Canada | David Suzuki Continue reading...