It’s easy to feel hopeless. A global disaster-in-progress can do that to you. There are 8.2 billion of us humans on this planet, and we are each so tiny, and, on our own, we each have so little we can do to fight climate change and adapt, when adaptation so clearly requires large-scale action.
In this section we hope you learn more about the nuts and bolts of how a shift to renewable energy would have to work, how electricity gets from a fossil fuel power plant or a solar panel to your house via the PJM grid.
Unfortunately federal policy backslides could make it costlier to electrify your home or transportation or to improve the energy efficiency of a property. Going green is a massive undertaking, and it looks like this country isn’t undertaking it.
So what can one 8.2-billionth of the world population do? We hope that the life and work of activists like George Lakey suggests a path forward: Keep trying, even when it feels hopeless.
