The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future
- ISBN-10
- 1760643874
- ISBN-13
- 9781760643874
- Series
- The Big Switch
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-02-14
- Author
- Saul Griffith
Description
An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now - but what? Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In The Big Switch, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint - optimistic but feasible - for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. 'I'm a scientist, inventor and father who wants to leave my kids a better world. The data convinces me that it is still rational to have hope.' -Saul Griffith
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