The new infrastructure required to address climate change

Greenhouse gases are still rising globally. Some advocacy groups are demanding that these emissions be eliminated entirely within a decade, requiring a scale of industrial and political mobilization matching or exceeding that of World War II.

In order to clean up the electricity grid by 2030, the scale of construction programs required would be a "national project on an immense scale," The New York Times reports. American workers would need to build about 120,000 new wind turbines and around 44,000 large solar power plants to accompany the US' already intact and energy-supplying dams and nuclear plants, according to The Times.

Ultimately, writes Justin Gillis and Sonia Aggarwal, a fast renewable power construction program is the need on one end, and on the other, a faster review process, something tied up in politics and bureaucracy. The pair see the 2020 election as an opportunity for a new direction in the area of renewable power.

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