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Pace…is what matters most. I have little doubt we will run the world on sun and wind 40 years from now but if it takes us anything like 40 years to get there, then it will be a broken planet. Our energy systems will hardly matter. The march of history won’t get us where we need to go fast enough. We need to force that march.

for a very long time, all my life, we’ve called this stuff alternative energy, and it’s sort of been there on the fringe like maybe it’s not real big boy energy the way that oil and gas is. I think we’ve tended to think of it as the Whole Foods of energy. It’s like nice, but it’s pricey. It’s the Costco of energy now. It’s cheap, it’s available in bulk, it’s on the shelf ready to go.

“Lake effect, in Finn’s understanding, just meant you could never be sure what was coming.”

Listening to the audiobook now. Great narrator!

Loving this!!!

This is excellent.

Wow! I think it’s best to read this book knowing nothing about it, just be along for the ride.

Now, this is good writing! First chapter bam bam bam. Good stuff, witty, vivid, succinct.

We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly, we need millions of people doing it imperfectly.

Remember that plastic creates pollution at every stage of its creation, use, and disposal, regardless of the form it takes: packaging, park benches, artificial turf, fabric and more.

Each piece of plastic carries the weight of its origin, forged in the fires of expansion and extraction.

The only thing that’s actually being recycled is the myth that recycling will stop plastic pollution. The industry playbook worked in the 80s, on the eve of plastic product bans… [but] only 9% of plastics ever made has been recycled—because plastic is not designed to be recycled. The industry already knew this, and the gambit was as cynical then as it is now.