Clean Energy Laws 'by 20XX' are Science Fiction Stories
Pledges that state 100% renewable energy or net zero by 20XX serve as delay tactics to push actions we could take right now to mitigate the climate crisis into an unlikely future.
Two weeks ago, youth activists in Hawaii won a “historic” climate settlement that guarantees officials will release a roadmap to reach zero emissions for its transportation system by 2045, the year by which the state was already looking to get all its energy from renewables. “It’s written down, it’s enforceable, and that makes all the difference in the world between a promise and actual implementation,” Denise Antolini, emeritus professor of law at the University of Hawaii Law School, told The Guardian about the settlement.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that quote since I read it.
