Green illusions: the dirty secrets of clean energy and the future of environmentalism

ables. We need sacrifice on the scale that brought victory in World War II and we need something akin to the Marshall Plan in support of research and development. The clock is ticking. The fix will neither be easy nor cheap. It will be painful. We need to decarbonise the world economy and fast. Current and past strategies have failed and need to be jettisoned. How we live needs to change. How we eat and how we get around needs to change. How comfortable we are needs to change. Above all, we need to tell the truth. The carbon crunch is upon us. How we respond now will determine how severe that crunch will be.