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Envisioning a Clean Energy Future: The Hydro Legacy and Climate Action

In the face of a climate emergency, we must confront the stark realities presented by experts like Kevin Anderson and KC Golden. Current trends threaten ecosystems and global stability with a potential temperature rise of 4°C, resulting in devastating effects including significant sea-level rise and economic impacts. As we reflect on our past reliance on fossil fuels, we must embrace imagination and innovation to achieve a coal-free future. Seattle's hydroelectric legacy serves as a foundation for transforming our energy systems to promote prosperity, democracy, and sustainable practices.

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Envisioning a Clean Energy Future: The Hydro Legacy and Climate Action

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  1. Roll On: the hydro legacy and the clean energy future KC Golden Climate Solutions 02.19.14

  2. What if it were an emergency?

  3. What would Winnie say? “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat” “Co-benefits” my arse

  4. At stake: Everything Current path: “is incompatible with organized global community, is likely to be beyond ‘adaptation’, is devastating to the majority of ecosystems & has a high probability of not being stable (i.e. 4°C [7F] would be an interim temp. on the way to a much higher equilibrium)” - Kevin Anderson, Director , Tyndall Centre for Climate Change “Ouch” - KC Golden, Policy Director, Climate Solutions “Dad, dude, do you have any idea how much that would suck?” - Jonah Golden

  5. Snowpack down 56-70% Sea-level rise: up to $100 trillion a year

  6. The truth is not somewhere in the middle

  7. Kids, you’ve tried your best and you’ve failed miserably. The lesson is you should never, ever try

  8. Inaction Denial Confusion “I don’t think this is a big issue, because nobody’s doing anything about it.”

  9. WHAT TO DO? Scale and hope Change a bulb. Change the world.

  10. Hmm…Who do we know who could think really big? “Seattle is blessed with hydropower” Unh uh. We built that.

  11. Ending the fossil fuel age. Now’s the time. Here’s good. “Renewable” not “alternative” Coal-free. Soon. “2 energy systems” Less oil, more prosperity, democracy

  12. Possible? $4

  13. Possible? If it were absolutely necessary… …do you really doubt that it would be POSSIBLE???

  14. “The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn’t use their imaginations to think of the impossible.”

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