For example, there are currently **2,412 coal-fired power** plants in the world, and that number is still going up. Every single one of those plants will have to be replaced.
Or zoom in and consider just a single oil field, Hebron-Ben Nevis off the coast of Newfoundland. It will operate continuously for 30 years, employ hundreds of people, and cost $7 billion—and all that time, labor, and money will produce enough oil to last the world just 8 days.
We use so much energy, and we have invested so much in the machinery to generate it. Now, in the span of about 30 years, we have to **decommission it all** and start over again with clean technologies.
The market by itself can't press reset on an entire economy in just a few decades. We need a plan to speed the process up.
1. **Develop clean tech to replace every emission intensive process** we use today, a new way to make steel, to power airplanes, to fertilize fields.
2. Make new clean technologies **economically attractive** such that they can compete against dirty alternatives and work in not just rich countries but in all countries. Buyers will choose the cheaper option, if the cleaner solution is cost competitive
3. Deploying these **cost competitive solutions at scale.** Replacing the infrastructure we used to do things the old way to do them the new way
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