Hannah Ritchie's mental models

Their wordsThat’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).

Their wordsThey estimate that biofuels have increased emissions, not decreased them.

Their wordsHere, I always emphasise that it is an opportunity, not an inevitability. There’s no law that says this will happen.

Their wordsThe rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.

Their wordsWhat stands in the way is energy demand. Growing crops indoors is energy-intensive. So we’re really swapping a land problem for an energy one.