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And that's where we're putting another 175 million tons every single day.
You know, at the same time, Tim, during these last 20 years, we have seen a truly dramatic, nearly miraculous change in patterns of the global economy, whereby now every year we're investing twice as much
in renewable energy sources that don't create pollution as we are continuing to invest in fossil fuels.
Now, the bad news is that we're still seeing all this investment in fossil fuels, but the good news is that we're seeing the dramatic change unfold in the real world.
The climate policy discussion and those proposals that we're in a climate policy recession now led by Trump,
But in the real world, these changes are moving very quickly.
I'll give you one quick example.
If you look at all of the new electricity generation installed worldwide last year, we have all these discussions about nuclear and gas and coal still going and so forth.
What percentage of all the new electricity was renewable last year?
The answer is 92.5%.
I mean, it's just, you know, where the future is concerned, it's game over.
We're going to win this.
But in the U.S., it was 90%.
And if you include rooftop solar, it was 92% in the U.S.
last year.
That was me.
Good for you.
As the Australians say, good on you.
In the state of Texas, the home of the oil and gas industry in the United States, 80% of all the new electricity capacity was solar and wind.