7. That said, I'm worried to a degree I haven't been before. I'm worried for a few reasons: a) the science is coming back with more dire findings than many people seem to realize; b) opponents of change are mobilized as never before; c) time is of the essence.
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8. That last part, time, is the most important. Time is short. Time is way shorter than most people understand. Time is even shorter than most advocates for climate action understand.
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9. Time is short for two reasons. The first is that every day we delay action on the planetary crisis is a tragedy. Every day we lose, we draw closer to tipping points and breakdowns. We lose opportunities forever; we make the problems we have to face more dangerous ones.
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10. The second reason time is short is that our solutions need time to spread. There has never been more reason for optimism about our capacity to build a carbon-zero world. Our clean technologies, designs, policy ideas and business models get more powerful by the day.
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11. Part of what gives them their growing power is that as we build more of the clean economy, we learn and improve. The faster we build, the faster we learn, the better our solutions get and the more able to out-compete the dirty economy they become.
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12. In addition, even many of our solutions that are on slower technical learning curves return much greater benefits the earlier they're implemented.
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13. The sooner, for instance, that girls everywhere have the opportunity for quality education, the better off humanity will be,
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14. Almost everything we know how to do to tackle our planetary crisis works better the the faster we scale. Speed is everything.
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15. But at this moment when we need to go fast, we are surrounded by predatory delay. Predatory delay is the blocking of change to squeeze profits from unsustainable practices, regardless of the cost to others.
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16. And here's what worries me the most: I fear that far too many people are blind to the degree to which waiting to solve our planetary problems until we win our political aims inevitably means waiting to long to solve them at all.
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Also while the Democrats were in power it wasn't as bad but they weren't really suggesting the level of systemic change needed to even substantially slow #ClimateChange, maybe Gore was but that's it. The political status quo seems paralyzed in the face of our existential peril.
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