drilling
McKibben did not predict the Russia-Ukraine war and how it's halted many clean energy efforts.
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- Sep 2022
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If we don’t get there first, others will
Why does tackling climate change have to be a competition? Why can't it be a collaborative effort between nations?
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Cadillac
Climate change is not only the responsibility of individuals but of large corporations.
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Electric cars take lithium for batteries—but there’s enough lithium just in the known resources for three billion cars, and at the moment we only have 800 million.”
Although this gives the sense that we have an abundance of resources, it's hard to access them. Many metals we need reside at the seabed (at the bottom of the Pacific ocean) and it would be environmentally-damaging to mine there. One thing is knowing the resources exist and another is retrieving them.
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80 to 85 percent of its power from sun, wind, and water by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050
Dates are always helpful for visualization and context.
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good news
Here, McKibben switches from the problem to the solution. I like how he structures this article.
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