![]() ![]() ![]() One reason is inertia: we’ve been conditioned to like gasoline cars and gas stoves many of us don’t think about our furnaces or air-conditioners until they break, at which point we might take whatever replacement we can get. ![]() The transition to a livable and sustainable future will still be a staggering undertaking. And although the prices of coal, gas, and oil are artificially low-because the government subsidizes them and because they don’t include the costs of wrecking the planet-solar and wind power are often cheaper. Gadgets like electric cars and bikes, induction stovetops, and heat pumps are in showrooms now. In recent years, both tasks have become easier. ![]() We’ll also have to generate that electricity cleanly. will need to join other nations in replacing machines that burn them-cars, stoves, furnaces, and eventually things like planes and factories-with machines that run on electricity. The ice is melting, in large part, because the world keeps burning fossil fuels. “Humanity is on thin ice, and that ice is melting fast,” António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, recently warned, in response to a newly alarming climate report. ![]()
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