We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.
BILL MCKIBBEN
BILL MCKIBBEN
Bill McKibben on transition
Bill McKibben108 quotes“We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.”
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