Imagine a world without fossil fuels. None at all. Imagine a world where you never need to smell the fumes of a passing car, bus or truck.
And where traffic noise is massively reduced. Imagine a world powered by something you can't touch, which will be abundant for billions of years. Imagine a world where every single home has electricity, no matter how far it is from the grid. That's the future beyond fossil fuels.
Imagine... governments no longer needing to subsidize fossil fuel production, or spend fortunes protecting their underground fuel sources, pipes, and transmission lines. Trillions of taxpayer dollars are freed up. Smog and greenhouse gases plummet. Public health improves.
This healthy future is closer than you think. Our energy system is undergoing an unstoppable transformation. The coal-fired power industry that took a century to build is being rapidly replaced by sun and wind power, forces of nature which cannot be dug out of the ground or sold on commodity markets.
In this totally fossil-fuel-free world, electricity belongs to everyone, is homegrown in the true sense, bringing power to the 1.3 billion people who are currently inexcusably without it. The Paris Climate Agreement bound nations of the world to work peacefully for a fossil fuel free economy. But we need to move fast.
We must harness the power of the sun and work at the speed of light. Our collective mission is to bend the curve of emissions now. so that renewable energy outcompetes fossil fuels as the best new source of energy in all markets around the world by 2020. So, let's thank fossil fuels for all they have done. Their contribution to humanity has been nothing short of extraordinary.
However, now that we understand the dangers and the side effects, and have exciting, everlasting alternatives, it is time to retire them. Pronto! The journey to our fossil fuel free future is the most exciting, the most innovative, the most necessary, the most inclusive and far reaching global transformation we have ever seen.
This is the answer to so many challenges in the world. The energy newtopia. The only question now is, how quickly can we get there? See you again soon!