"The transition to renewable energy can be greatly accelerated if the world’s governments finally bring the engineers to the fore. … I was recently on a panel with three economists and a senior business-sector engineer. After the economists spoke, the engineer spoke succinctly and wisely, “I don’t really understand what you economists were just speaking about, but I do have a suggestion: Tell us engineers the desired ‘specs’ and the timeline, and we’ll get the job done.” This is not bravado. The next big act belongs to the engineers. Energy transformation for climate safety is our twenty-first-century moonshot."
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Jeffrey Sachs in For Climate Safety, Call in the Engineers, Project Syndicate (20 December 2018)
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