Season 1, Episode 4: Saul Griffith

June 25, 2020

The Green New Deal is easier than we think.

America’s leading energy expert, inventor and entrepreneur has written the roadmap for the Green New Deal. Saul and his colleagues at Otherlab undertook a comprehensive study of the U.S. energy system under contract from the U.S. Government. His research shows that we can transition quickly off of fossil fuels and onto renewable energy. Doing so will not only halt the climate crisis, it will reduce air pollution and water pollution, save billions of dollars in healthcare costs, create millions of good new jobs, and rejuvenate our economy for decades to come.

Saul leads us step-by-step through the decarbonization process. And he reminds us that we met a challenge like this once before: America turned its industrial system on a dime to produce the “Arsenal of Democracy” that saved the world from fascism.

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““The reality is that we win on almost every vector. The Green New Deal is going to provide cheaper energy for the average American home and for the American economy at large, it will improve our air quality, it will improve our health. If we committed to this with the vervor that we did for World War Two, we could do this in about a decade.””

— Saul Griffith