Electrifying everything: some optimism for climate change
Saul Griffith's hopeful and realistic action plan for fighting climate change while boosting the job market is to electrify, electrify, electrify.
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Saul Griffith is the author of Electrify (photo/Clayton Boyd)
Reports of the rapidly intensifying impact of climate change – including a recent IPCC one featured on Radio Times – often leave people with a sense of dread and hopelessness that it will ever be possible to reduce just how severely we’ve harmed the planet. Today we lay out an optimistic, maybe even realistic, plan.
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Saul Griffith – Author of Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for our Clean Energy Future
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