Clean energy is booming. We’re about to waste almost all of it.

One year ago, the US Senate approved a historic investment in climate action. Turns out money was the easy part.
Especially in Texas - which might come a surprise given its crucial role in the oil industry. But Texas also tells the future about where we're headed. The world is not moving fast enough - if the the US doesn't dramatically speed up, it will miss its climate goals.
And even if the government makes building energy transition projects easier in the rest of the country, Texas is living in that future already - and the backlash has just begun. Every single energy transition project will be in somebody’s backyard or in their farmland, and there's a massive fight playing out not.
Our newest episode of the Agenda dives deep on Texas, where our clean energy transition future is already playing out. Watch the full video on our KZbin channel, and you can click here to subscribe so you don't miss the next one.
WHAT'S NEXT
Semafor's Tim McDonnell writes about the latest in how permitting reform is progressing here: www.semafor.co... In short: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has made some changes attempting to clear its long backlog of "grid hookup" requests, but there's been little movement on larger issues.
NOTABLE
We met Cricia through Emily Foxhall and her fantastic reporting on the renewables backlash in rural Texas: www.texastribu...
For further reading about the split within the environmental movement about permitting reform, Robinson Meyer at Heatmap is fantastic in his latest: heatmap.news/p...
Or you can listen to an in-depth conversation between him and Ezra Klein about the topic: www.nytimes.co...
And of course, sign up for NetZero that's covering the world's race to decarbonize twice a week: www.semafor.co...

[@MaggieFischer96]

I appreciate how this video shows every possible angle in the renewable energy conversation -- I feel smarter for watching!

[@peaches4623]

Nuclear energy is the way

[@JohnathanRHill]

Once and future king

[@nancyseiler2844]

How does that help if connection is the problem?

[@JackVezz]

"Protecting the land" doesn't mean much when the land is a monocultural sprawl where biodiversity goes to die. What they are really protecting is their over-extended way of life, which is precisely the problem.

[@nancyseiler2844]

Maybe all would be better off if we let go of the grid and did power locally, if not individually. Fewer outages too. Skip connectivity. Of course, power companies would no longer exist - less control of us so less getting rich off of us.

[@jonsmith1162]

How much does WEF pay Semafor? A true establishment mouthpiece. Rebel gets more views on every one of their videos than you have subscribers 😂😂

[@forsale9756]

Great work. I just discovered Semafor.

[@emilthomas2136]

U guys should get soo much more views 😊

[@matt45540]

@12:00 she doesn't realize the farmers are the ones letting all this happen. They make more money off of solar panels and wind turbines than they do crops. If you don't want things built in your backyard buy a bigger backyard.

[@TransferProtocol]

Seriously. And the way she talks about what someone else is doing on their own property at around 11 mins it seems that she feels she has some right to the airspace over someone else's property. And maybe she does maybe she doesn't above a certain altitude. But the sensible thing to me if you're worried about what's happening at the end of your airstrip seems to be buy enough property past the end of the strip for it not to be a problem

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Fossil Fuels

[@melusine826]

Agrivoltics!!! Co benefits

[@timothykeith1367]

85 to 95 percent of the cost of water is the electricity used for pumping. As Texas depends more on wind and solar the cost of electricity could drive the cost of basic residential water service to beyond $200 a month. This will impact low Income households the most.

[@devinrobinsonx4442]

Remember when diesel was the “next big thing” to fix the environment? History is repeating itself and people are just as arrogant about Ćlean energy as they were about diesel.

[@JamesR1986]

Cynicism is not a personality. Nor is "This thing didn't work, ergo this unrelated thing also won't work" is a sign of intelligence.

[@devinrobinsonx4442]

@@JamesR1986 Being arrogant and forcing a "researched" view on a populace is the point. It failed and no one even remembers. However, at the time, everyone thought it was the right thiiing to do and thiis is history repeating itself.

[@gagejernigan5277]

You’re not taking my gas car

[@JamesR1986]

Correct, no one is going to take your gas car. Nobody has purposed seizing any private property against the will of their owners.

[@100c0c]

Banning sales of gas cars is taking away access...

[@GreatOrigins]

But just as we took away access to use products containing CFCs (which were harming the Ozone layer) and replaced them with cleaner, alternatives, so too, will we with gasoline powered cars. Electric, Hydrogen, and even Biofueled vehicles are all experiencing record investment. So while you may lose access to buying new gas cars, you will gain access other cars

[@peaches4623]

I hate wind turbines

[@dmiller9786]

Your video editing skills far exceed your ability to tell a coherent persuasive story

[@devinrobinsonx4442]

So…why are we pushing so hard if it takes so long? Why not allow the market to dictate what is needed?

[@heathherndon3389]

They want to fail and then blame those that resisted as the culprits. If you think giving money is gonna fix climate change your a idiot

[@Semafor]

The market hasn't found a way to price in the long term costs of burning fossil fuels - and it's doubtful it could given disastrous effects of climate change don't respect the borders that markets operate within -joe

[@devinrobinsonx4442]

The market isn’t being allowed to work. Remember, the oil and gas tycoons hinder growth. Now the government is hindering growth of other alternative energy sources. Solar and wind aren’t the answers. It’s pretty obvious. A combination of nuclear, gas, solar and wind may work but the markets aren’t free to move. They’re all being instigated by others, not the market.

[@BuggiEU]

Because market rewards for financial profit and doesn't punish for climate disaster.

[@globalwarming382]

Did dodo brain say "Cant Run this country without clean Fossil" ?