Why you should ditch deadly fossil-fuel appliances | Donnel Baird

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In the US, people spend the overwhelming majority of their time inside buildings that burn fossil fuels, which are bad for both the environment and human health. (Think: breathing in air pollution from gas stoves, furnaces and water heaters.) If we're going to fix this problem, we need to retrofit millions of buildings with all-electric equipment, says energy upgrader Donnel Baird. Hear about his ambitious plan to rip the fossil fuel infrastructure out of aging buildings and upgrade it with smarter, cleaner, healthier technology.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	The way we're heating our homes is not only outdated and wasteful, but dangerous,
0:17.0	says Energy Upgrader Don L Baird.
0:19.0	In his 2023 talk from the Ted Countdown Summit,
0:22.0	he introduces us to the exciting new ways to electrify buildings.
0:27.0	It can stop cancerous gases from leaking into our homes, but be sustainable and affordable at the same time.
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0:57.0	So, my wife and I have two young children and like many of you we are terrified about what the worst impacts of the climate crisis are going to be for them in their lives.
1:12.0	Do we honestly have a plan that's specific, that's achievable,
1:16.7	that's actionable, that's going to allow us to reduce emissions at scale
1:22.2	with the speed that's necessary to respond to the catastrophe in time to
1:28.9	improve the quality of life for our kids. We've decided to focus and devote our time and attention to the
1:38.8	challenge of greening buildings in America and I'll tell you a little bit about why.
1:47.0	There are 125 million buildings in America,
1:51.0	coast to coast.
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