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SAUL GRIFFITH: Biden’s renegade climate advisor from Wollongong drops the best ever climate bomb!


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Saul Griffith is a mad inventor, an official “genius” (as per the prestigious Macarthur Fellowship, um, wait for it, for his prodigy of service in the world community) and he has a fix for the climate crisis! Electrify everything! US President Joe Biden vibed with it so much he made the Australian his climate advisor. 
I first came across Saul on one of my eternal searches for legit climate solutions that bring true excitement and hope to humans.  For years I've wanted to pick apart his wild idea summed up in his new book, written for President Joe Biden, Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook For Our Clean Energy Future. The gist is this: We can get to those 2030 targets required for our survival on this planet, using technology that already exists and if he had to choose a country in the world where it can happen the fastest and with the biggest economic win he'd say, Australia!
Saul is a lot of fun, swears a touch (be warned!), rides a bike everywhere, barely wears shoes and rather infamously (according to the interwebs) pointed out the carbon footprint of his underpants in his 2006 TED talk.
The Electrify the lot and fast mantra is one I buy into…to a point. We still must consume less…way less. Saul agrees. We are going to talk further...
Watch Saul's TED Talk here
https://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_everyday_inventions?language=en 

Saul's new book Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook For Our Clean Energy Future is available in the US now, find it here and getting an Australian version soon.
Saul would love for you to source a copy from his favourite local book shop in Thirroul:
https://collinsbooksthirroul.com.au/p/electrify-an-optimists-playbook-for-our-clean-energy-future-87f36d28-7c27-4d98-b406-c6fe0576ab68?barcode=9780262046237

Explore the exciting world of Saul's inventions and ideas here
https://www.saulgriffith.com/ 

Listen to my Ask Me Anything on climate episode here
https://pod.link/1548626341/episode/39f6573570b3837e65f7a5897d50592f 
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