The biggest lie that we have been fed might be how hard going renewable is. We’re here to tell you that implementing 80% renewable energy by 2035 is not only attainable but relatively easy.
We can embrace analogies about getting into rehab, pulling the oil needle out of our arm, as we foreground solutions of processing waste in an easier way that not only makes energy but cleans the atmosphere as it does so. But, if the last months of covid-19 responses have taught us anything, it’s that we can change our practices, and we must.
More here from Bill McKibben from the New Yorker: