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Title: Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
Author: GRIFFITH SAUL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 30/11/2021
Imprint: MIT PRESS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
An optimistic–but realistic and feasible–action plan for fighting climate change while
creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.
Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now-but what? Saul
Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint-optimistic but feasible-for
fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment.
Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly
what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our
households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out
planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for
the future.
Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households,
businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were
created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer lowinterest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, notyet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can
still have our cars and our houses-but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover
our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is
no other project that would create as many jobs-up to twenty-five million, according to one
economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything
else.
ISBN: 9780262046237
Pages: 272
Edition: 01