<p><span>On his first day in office, President Biden signed seventeen executive orders, including orders for the United States to rejoin the Paris climate agreement; </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/joe-bidens-cancellation-of-the-keystone-pipeline-is-a-landmark-in-the-climate-fight">to cancel the building of the Keystone XL oil pipeline</a><span>; and to impose new restrictions on emissions, drilling, and many other threats to the environment. During Biden’s campaign, </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-joe-bidens-climate-plan-really-signals">he promised a climate-change revolution</a><span>. Two-thirds of the American public expresses support for government action on global warming, Democrats now control both houses of Congress, and activists are making significant headway in the fossil-fuel-divestment movement and other actions.<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/bill-mckibben">Bill McKibben</a><span> joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how to shift the Zeitgeist and save the planet.</span></p>
On his first day in office, President Biden signed seventeen executive orders, including orders for the United States to rejoin the Paris climate agreement; to cancel the building of the Keystone XL oil pipeline; and to impose new restrictions on emissions, drilling, and many other threats to the environment. During Biden’s campaign, he promised a climate-change revolution. Two-thirds of the American public expresses support for government action on global warming, Democrats now control both houses of Congress, and activists are making significant headway in the fossil-fuel-divestment movement and other actions. Bill McKibben joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how to shift the Zeitgeist and save the planet.