Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Reducing food waste is a huge climate solution.

Eating a plant-based diet.

These are in the top 10 if we shift culture, society.

I just really want people to understand that we basically have the climate solutions we need and that they are affordable, right?

Like solar is cheaper than oil, right?

Like we could just have solar panels capturing photons, powering our lives, storing that in batteries overnight, right?

We have all these there's more jobs in renewable energy than in coal, for sure.

Right.

There is this opportunity to shift to an economy based on renewable energy.

And the transition is happening.

Most of the new electricity that's been brought onto the grid in the last few years is renewable.

in terms of newly added sources of electricity.

So that's the direction we're going in.

It's just a question of how much is the fossil fuel lobby and all the politicians in their pocket going to slow us down?

So it's like a question of speed and who's going to benefit from it, right?

Is that correct?

I think so.

I mean, the Inflation Reduction Act that he championed was the largest investment in clean energy, in climate solutions, not just in American history, but in world history.

Like hundreds of billions of dollars going into clean energy, all of these tax credits for people to install heat pumps and like...

reduce draftiness of their homes to insulate their attics get more efficient windows etc and the republican congress came in um with trump and just like canceled all of that early right we had started the american climate corps like please talk about putting young people to work on climate solutions across the country starting at ninety thousand dollars a year