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TED Explores: A New Climate Vision

TED Talks Daily

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Exponential Change: The Rapid Growth of Renewable Energy

The chapter discusses the concept of exponential change, where change starts slow and then rapidly accelerates. It highlights how governments and experts have underestimated the rapid adoption of renewable energy and associated technologies. The speaker shares their own experience of underestimating the decline in solar costs, which happened twice as fast as predicted.

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