Fixing climate change ain’t hard

I no longer worry that climate change will kill us or more importantly, me. I see the challenges for sure: the extreme weather events, the rising temperatures, and the increases in environmental carbon and I haven’t taken leave of my senses. But I have studied the science and understood the sociology.

To be sure, everything won’t suddenly be fine if we do nothing and we won’t just learn to live with climate change because it will continue getting worse. Unaddressed, climate change is like untreated cancer, it will kill you. We don’t need to put our economy on a war footing to fix it though. We’ll fix climate change because there’s a strong economic incentive to do so.

Me? Worry? Nah.

You see, we’re running out of fossil fuels. The US Department of Energy estimates there are 1.6 trillion barrels of oil left worldwide, enough for 50 years at current consumption rates. Drill baby drill and frack baby frack won’t change any of that. So we need to convert the economy to renewable electricity which will take approximately 25 years and it will create the next economic boom in the process.

We’ll make that conversion because there will be huge business incentives. Electric cars are showing up at dealerships and they’re pretty good, too. Most get 250 miles on a charge and the solution to range anxiety, if you have it, is to install charging stations wherever…