From Possible to Inevitable: Disruptive Options for Progress

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From Possible to Inevitable: Disruptive Options for Progress

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Elizabeth May and John Kidder April/May 2023

Elizabeth May’s work as an environmental activist and leader of the Green Party of Canada has coincided with the rise of climate change as a planetary threat, public concern and policy priority. John Kidder started as a cowboy and a range manager, and became a technology developer and a student of disruption. Elizabeth and John were married in 2019. Their deep expertise on the science and politics of climate change is reflected in their co-authorship of the 2022 primer Climate Change for Dummies, and in this exploration of where we are in the policy and politics of the clean energy transition.

Over the next few decades, the world’s economies will be transformed as they abandon fossil fuels. It is not going to be easy or painless. But we can make the necessary possible, and the possible will become inevitable. . . .

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Have we reached peak fossil fuel? These charts show how 2023 could be a new era for power

World Economic Forum April 12, 2023 **** CHARTS

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- We are approaching “the beginning of the end of the fossil age”, according to the fourth annual Global Electricity Review from energy think tank Ember.

- 2023 could be the year that renewable power reaches a tipping point where power-generation emissions begin to fall.

- These charts show how renewables will replace fossil fuels, and which regions are leading the way in decarbonization.

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