There is no excuse for anyone to reject a renewables revolution. While oil and gas prices have reached record price levels renewables are getting cheaper all the time. The cost of solar energy and batteries has plummeted 85 per cent over the past decade. The cost of wind power fell by 55 per cent. And investment in renewables creates three times more jobs than fossil fuels.
Of course renewables are not the only answer to the climate crisis. Nature-based solutions such as reversing deforestation and land degradation are essential. So too are efforts to promote energy efficiency. But a rapid renewable energy transition must be our ambition.
As we wean ourselves off fossil fuels the benefits will be vast and not just to the climate. Energy prices will be lower and more predictable with positive knock-on effects for food and economic security. When energy prices rise so do the costs of food and all the goods we rely on. So let us all agree that a rapid renewables revolution is necessary and stop fiddling while our future burns.
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