An action plan for solving the climate crisis | John Doerr and Ryan Panchadsaram

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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"How much more damage do we have to endure before we realize that it's cheaper to save this planet than to ruin it?" asks engineer and investor John Doerr. In conversation with Countdown cofounder Lindsay Levin, Doerr and systems innovator Ryan Panchadsaram lay out six big objectives that -- if pursued with speed and scale -- could transform society and get us to net-zero emissions by 2050. An action plan to solve the world's climate crisis, backed up by a proven system for setting goals for success.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh. You're listening to TED Talks Daily. We know the planet is in peril and that action has to happen fast to curb climate change.
0:13.7	What's refreshing about today's talk from the Countdown Summit in 2021 is how specific and practical it is in its objectives and measurable plans to get to a net
0:23.8	zero future.
0:25.5	Engineer and investor John Doer and systems innovator Ryan Panchatsaram lay out their plan in a really
0:31.9	straightforward way in a conversation with entrepreneur, Lindsay Levin.
0:38.6	So the book is called Speed and Scale,
0:41.1	but I want to focus on the subtitle.
0:43.9	The subtitle being,
0:45.7	an action plan to solve our climate crisis now.
0:48.6	What's the plan, John?
0:50.2	The plan is to transform society.
0:57.0	And what do you mean by that transform society?
1:00.0	I thought you might ask that.
1:03.0	There are six big objectives. We're going to electrify transportation,
1:05.0	which means stop using diesel and gas for our vehicles.
1:09.0	We're going to decarbonize the grid with wind and solar and nuclear.
1:14.1	Third, we're going to fix our food systems, and that includes eating less meat and dairy,
1:22.5	reducing food waste and improving our soil health.
1:26.8	Fourth, we're going to protect nature. That's stopping
1:30.4	deforestation, protecting our oceans, protecting our peatlands, our grasslands. Fifth, we're going to
1:38.0	clean up our materials, how we make things like cement and steel. And then sixth, we're going to have to figure out ways to
1:46.0	remove the carbon that remains, that stubborn residual effects of emissions that cannot be eliminated.
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