Ch. “This will be hard” p.51
<< To sum up: We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before, much faster than we have ever done anything similar. To do it, we need lots of breakthroughs in science and engineering. We need to build a consensus that doesn’t exist and create public policies to push a transition that would not happen otherwise. We need the energy system to stop doing all the things we don’t like and keep doing all the things we do like — in other words, to change completely and also stay the same.
But don’t despair. We can do this. There are lots of ideas out there for how to do it, some of them more promising than others. In the next chapter, I’ll explain how I try to tell them apart. >>
