CLIMATE CHANGE

The climate crisis is here and now and anyone who experienced the record-shattering heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest knows there is no time to wait. No time to “study the issue.” No time for half-measures. It’s time for bold action to save the planet. Nothing short of a massive, sustained, war-effort-level investment—coordinated with the rest of the world—can hope to save us. The Green New Deal is a jumping off point. 

I earned my PhD studying the renewable energy technologies that can save our planet. I’m intimately familiar with the them: solar and wind power, fuel cells and batteries. No single technology is going to answer our energy needs, and each requires a different approach and regulatory framework to best support it. For instance, solar and wind have different use cases and different infrastructure requirements. It’s critical that the people who write our laws understand these differences, but hardly any do. That’s how fossil fuel lobbyists spread misinformation and spike the most critical parts of green legislation. I won’t fall for it—and I’ll make sure my colleagues don’t either.