By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent
What Happened: I’ll tell you all what: David Roberts, aka Dr. Vox, knows how to capture your attention. Last I saw him, he was claiming battery storage had a “dirty secret,” about which we, well…you might say we disagreed. But he’s back, and this time I agree with him.
What our world will look like not that long from now (in the grand scheme of things) if we don’t attack climate change aggressively, like yesterday.
SolarWakeup’s View: Hey, when Dr. Vox is right, he’s right.
David Roberts, also known by his Twitter handle @drvox, penned an overview article today on three recent studies on climate change and discussed ways humanity might save Earth from actually becoming the burnt-out hellscape so many people already think it is.
First, Roberts dispenses with the idea that we can simply wait for carbon extraction technologies – technologies that will manage to capture carbon from the air and bury it – to become a thing. Right now, those technologies aren’t even in the infant stages, and we simply can’t wait. Failure, as they say, is not an option.
Here are the four strategies Roberts, based on his reading of three different studies, believes can help save Earth from the human race:
The whole piece is a fascinating read, but I can’t emphasize enough the most important part of Roberts’ article, the phrase all of us climate warriors should have tatooed on the inside of our left arm:
“So the only rule of climate policy that really matters is: go as hard and fast as possible, forever and ever. Amen.”
Amen.
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