Saul Griffith
Books by Saul Griffith
“The subtitle of this book is ‘an optimist’s playbook for our clean energy future’. That’s very accurate: it’s optimistic, and it’s a playbook. It reads a bit like a PowerPoint presentation and I mean that in a good way. It’s very clear, it’s very practical, it’s very possiblist. It’s very much focused on the technical rather than the political without being naive about the need for political will. What are the technical possibilities for addressing climate change? Saul Griffith’s answer is that we already have the most important technical solution in front of us and it’s electrification. Basically, it’s very simple: we have to electrify everything and we have to do it as quickly as possible.” Read more...
The Best Climate Books of 2021
Sarah Dry, Science Writer
Interviews where books by Saul Griffith were recommended
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Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert -
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm -
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Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
by Saul Griffith
The Best Climate Books of 2021, recommended by Sarah Dry
The Best Climate Books of 2021, recommended by Sarah Dry
From the power of the individual to effect change to the large-scale government interventions needed, are we close to a tipping point in our efforts to combat climate change? Just in time to get up to speed for COP26, here’s a selection of the best climate books of 2021, selected for us by historian of climate science, Sarah Dry.
