Big Picture Science: Solar Good
In Brazil,
leaders from across the globe are gathering for COP30, the premier climate
summit in the world. For the first time, the U.S. is sitting it out, after
exiting the Paris Agreement. There is, however, a ray of hope in the global
efforts to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and
journalist who describes himself as a “professional bummer-out-of-people,” has
good news about the solar energy industry, after years of his repeated, and
alarming, reports about our failure to address climate change. For the first
time ever, solar energy production is outpacing the fossil fuel industry.
Momentum is gathering in surprising places. The state with the fastest growing
clean energy sector is the oil and gas country, Texas. And, when energy
analysts investigated Pakistan’s sudden drop in energy demand, they saw “solar
panels spreading across rooftops like mushrooms after a rainstorm.”
Guests:
- Bill McKibben – environmentalist, journalist and author of “Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization”
- Jon Gertner – journalist, editor, and author of “The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation”
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