Climate 101 with Albert Wenger pt 2
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Climate 101 with Albert Wenger pt 2
Getting to zero won’t be easy. Harmful emissions are caused by many things that we’ve come to take for granted. Electricity, heating, transportation, large-scale agriculture, and fundamental construction tools like iron and cement – all of these areas will require serious rethinking if we’re to reach the goal.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Random House Large Print)
short, we can reduce Green Premiums by making carbon-free things cheaper (which involves technical innovation), by making carbon-emitting things more expensive (which involves policy innovation), or by doing some of both.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Carbon fundamentalism is another form of denial. Energy obviously matters; it’s an absolutely strategic point of intervention for shifting us to a more just society, but when people talk about renewable energy and clean energy as if the only thing that matters is reducing carbon emissions and it doesn’t matter how we get there. We say, No, it’s not
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But the commission I’m involved with priced out spending in five key areas (creating early-warning systems, building climate-resilient infrastructure, raising crop yields, managing water, and protecting mangroves) and found that investing $1.8 trillion…
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