TY - BOOK AU - Griffith,Saul TI - Electrify: an optimist's playbook for our clean energy future SN - 0262545047 AV - TK1001 .G75 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - Clean energy KW - United States KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Electric power production KW - Energy development KW - Energy policy KW - Renewable energy sources N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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, Giffith says, will stay and fight for the future ER -