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When ‘Electrify Everything’ Means Quitting Your Desk Job and Getting Your Hands Dirty

How to Save a Planet

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The Hold Up to Speeding Up the Climate Transition

Despite the dirt and grime, Nate dreamed more and more about quitting his job in journalism and working full time as an electrician. Loved the work. The pay wasn't that much different. So finally, he told his boss at the magazine, he was quitting. And he made the jump. He developed an insight into the climate transition that just reading and reporting about it hadn't given him. An insight about a factor that could be holding back our efforts to electrify everything. A big hold up to speeding this transition is a labor shortage.

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