How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Quotes

“Pages 56 and 57”

“Pages 54 and 55”

“Carbon sequestration”

“Offshore wind holds a lot of promise . . . .”

“Wikipedia: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”

“You already have a heat pump in your home . . . . It's called a refrigerator.”

“As an Employee or Employer . . . Prioritize innovation in low-carbon solutions. . . . Be an early adopter. . . . Connect with government-funded research.”

“By the middle of this century, the cost of climate change to all coastal cities could exceed $1 trillion . . . each year.”

“To get these [breakthroughs on the "Technologies needed" list] ready soon enough to make a difference, governments need to . . . [q]uintuple clean energy and climate-related R&D over the next decade. . . .”

“As a Citizen . . . Make calls, write letters, attend town halls. . . . [M]ake clear that this is an issue that will help determine how you vote. . . . Look locally as well as nationally. . . . Run for office.”

“[I]f you want a measuring stick for which countries are making progress on climate change . . . don't simply look for the ones that are reducing their emissions. Look for the ones that are setting themselves up to get to zero.”

“Some companies may go under in the coming years; that comes with the territory when you’re doing cutting-edge work . . . .”

“[W]e’re going to need much more clean electricity in the coming years. . . . [B]y 2050 . . . the world will need much more than three times the electricity we generate now.”

“[C]ement . . . steel [and] plastics are cheap because fossil fuels are cheap.”

“The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.”

“There are markets worth billions of dollars waiting for someone to invent low-cost, zero-carbon cement or steel, or a net-zero liquid fuel. As I’ve tried to show, making these breakthroughs and getting them to scale will be hard, but the opportunities are so big that it’s worth getting out in front of the rest of the world.”

“When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary.”

“We should spend the next decade focusing on the technologies, [governmental] policies and market structures that will put us on the path to eliminating greenhouse gases by 2050. It's hard to think of a better response to a miserable [year of COVID-19 disruptions during] 2020 than spending the next ten years dedicating ourselves to this ambitious goal.”

“In most locations, your overall costs will go down if you get rid of an electric air conditioner and gas (or oil) furnace and replace both with an electric heat pump.”

“As the climate gets warmer, droughts and floods will become more frequent, wiping out harvests more often.”