Bill McKibben

You'd go crazy.

And trying to do it on our own is, you know, that's kind of the American disease.

Our sort of hyper individualist culture is one of the things that got us in the trouble that we're in.

And so building movements, building that kind of solidarity is good on many fronts.

One, the very, very rapid rollout of sun and wind and batteries.

These are the three technologies we have that are affordable and on the shelf and ready to go.

In fact, the engineers have done such a good job that the price of power from solar farm has dropped about 90% in the last decade.

We now live in a world where the cheapest way to produce power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun.

It's a very new thing, and I don't think we've completely caught up with it yet mentally.

I think we still sometimes think of these as alternative energies, the kind of whole foods of energy, and

coal and gas and oil or the Sam's Club of energy, you know, but that's not true anymore.

So everything that we can do to speed that up, whether it's provide the government support or at a local level to make it easier to permit and build things quickly because we're in a race against time.

It's funny because this is the other half of the work we do at Third Act.

We work on protecting the climate, but also the political climate.

because for people my age, it's strange, scary, and embarrassing to watch, say, a mob of people invade the nation's capital, killing police officers to stop the counting of votes.

That's not something that even this would have been comprehensible to an American of my vintage and when I was, you know, young.

And so these things are very linked.

You know,

You're absolutely right that most Americans want us to take action on climate change.

But one of the reasons that we don't is precisely because the fossil fuel industry has done such a powerful job of gaming our political system.