The Importance of Climate Change Policy

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The price of power from solar farm has dropped about 90% in the last decade. "We now live in a world where the cheapest way to produce power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun," he says. I don't think we've completely caught up with it yet mentally, you know? We're in a race against time.

Most of us get that climate change is a global problem we need to solve, fast. But that can feel incredibly overwhelming when most of us don’t even know where to start. Bill McKibben is an environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively about climate change and global warming. With a refreshing lightheartedness and frank outlook, Bill discusses the emotions, ideas and data that keep him moving forward in the battle against climate change and outlines ways you too can take action to save the planet you call home. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts