Laurel’s Reviews > Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization > Status Update

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.