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In an editorial in the Guardian, writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit rises above the fray and reminds us how renewables are now adequate to meet almost all our energy needs. The renewable energy transition is happening all around us, and “it is nothing less than astonishing and unbelievable that we have achieved so much progress in so little time,” she states. No, it’s not nearly fast enough, she acknowledges, “but the key thing to saving the planet is whittling down the fossil fuel industry and use of fossil fuels to almost nothing by making the energy transition to renewables and an electrified world.”
Solnit calls on advocates of all kinds to illustrate the power and place of renewables in everyday life, as making them more visible would make more people more enthused about them “as a solution, a promise, a possibility we can,…
