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? 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 Griffith says will stay and fight for the future. Griffith an engineer and inventor
calls for grid neutrality ensuring that households businesses and utilities operate as
equals we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world
mobilize industry as we did in World War II and offer low-interest climate loans. Griffith's
plan doesn't rely on big not-yet-invented innovations but on thousands of little inventions
and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses-but the cars will be electric
and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and
economic crisis there is no other project that would create as many jobs-up to twenty-five
million according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change
politics along with everything else.
