Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future Hardcover – October 12, 2021 by Saul Griffith

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Author: Griffith Saul

Color: White

Package Dimensions: 0x0x567

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 12-10-2021

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An optimistic–but realistic and feasible–action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.

Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something
now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In
Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.

Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to twenty-five million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.

Review

“I don’t think anyone else has quite so credibly laid out a realistic plan for swift action in the face of an existential crisis.”
—
Bill McKibben,
New York Review of Books”… the book demands attention.”
—
Nature

“Surprisingly optimistic, realistic, and persuasive.”
—
Kirkus (Starred)

“It’s very clear, it’s very practical, it’s very possiblist.”
—
Five Books

Review

“I don’t think anyone else has quite so credibly laid out a realistic plan for swift action in the face of an existential crisis.”
— Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books”… the book demands attention.”
— Nature

“Surprisingly optimistic, realistic, and persuasive.”
— Kirkus (Starred)”It’s very clear, it’s very practical, it’s very possiblist.”
— Five Books

“The great thing about
Electrify is that it zeroes in on two of the most urgent issues we face in coping with climate change and dodging the onrushing mass extinction event: how to transform our energy supply to clean renewables as quickly as possible and, crucially, how to pay for that work. The combination, as outlined by Griffith, is an inspiring and even exhilarating experience to witness. Read it and see!”
—
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy and The Ministry for the Future

“A radical but realistic take on the new direction of infrastructure, investment, and production,
Electrify is required reading for an economy-wide green transition in the USA.”
—Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London; author of
Mission Economy

A visionary book on tackling the climate crisis. Saul Griffith is ahead of the curve when it comes to the solutions we need now.”
—
Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Yes we can! The complete assembly instructions for a desirable future with a good climate are inside this book. What a joy to read this clear and crisp thinking. It’s electrifying.”
—
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick, Wired magazine

About the Author

Saul Griffith, inventor, entrepreneur, and engineer, is founder of Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007.