Turning Up the Heat

July 2013
By Bill McKibben
Sojourners Magazine

No one wants to spend summer vacation in the clink, but that’s where a lot us are going to find ourselves.

STATISTICALLY, the last couple of weeks of July are the hottest months of the year. In recent decades, the fossil fuel industry has been making them steadily hotter by burning huge amounts of coal, gas, and oil: Last year was by the far the warmest year in American history, and it came complete with biblical-scale fire, drought, and storm.