Chapters:

00:00 Episode 8: My 6-Point Plan for Energy Transition
01:50 (1) Build a global grassroots community
06:52 (2) Recognize that “Just Stopping Oil” isn’t a productive goal
09:30 (3) Re-commit to Investing in Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
10:14 (4) Get the Word Out About Deep Geothermal
11:04 (5) Get the Word Out About Advanced Nuclear
12:15 (6) Dispense with the Propaganda and make a Serious Plan to build 80k TWH of new clean electricity by 2050
14:33 Erik’s Thoughts on Energy Transition
15:35 Wind/Solar Caveat
22:13 Title Card “Energy Transition Needs Your Help!”

In this final episode of Energy Transition Crisis, I’ll lay out my 6-point action plan to accomplish energy transition and achieve net-zero climate goals by 2050. What follows are my personal opinions about what we as a society should do to fully replace fossil fuels by 2050. Please engage with us in the comments below this video and the earlier episodes in the series to express your own ideas on this most important subject of the 21st century.
First and foremost we the people need to work together to navigate the coming crisis. We must resist our politicians’ attempts to divide us by making energy transition a partisan political issue. We should all take an interest in what’s at stake, and we should all strive to personally understand the most important issues rather than just trusting our politicians to make the right decisions for us.
Specifically, we need to promote better public awareness of energy’s importance to our standard of living, and why our standard of living is now in decline as a direct result of increasing energy costs due to peak cheap oil.

The Energy we get from fossil fuels literally ended human slavery and makes it possible for most of us not to have to work on farms just to survive. So abundant energy is a very, very good thing for humanity, and we should want more of it, not less.

The problem is just that we’re getting our energy from the wrong sources.
Energy transition away from fossil fuels in favor of clean energy is the single most important challenge humanity faces in the 21st century.
But we’re becoming divided by politics—let’s not allow that to happen!
What Americans perceive science to say about Climate Change literally depends on what political party they’re a member of, because both parties have aggressively subjected their constituents to messaging designed to persuade them the other party has the science wrong.
Everyone has the right to make up their own mind, but no one has the right to make up their own facts!

We the people need to get in touch with just how badly governments are screwing up this energy transition, and we need to find a path forward that unites us around a common goal we can all believe in rather than trying to divide us into factions who see one another as enemies.

I propose that Energy transition (rather than Climate Change) could be the uniting strategy that can bring us all together as a unified movement.
For those who believe climate change poses an existential threat to humanity, nothing could possibly be more important than building the green energy supply we need to end our addiction to fossil fuels. So it should be a no-brainer for those concerned about climate change that Energy Transition away from fossil fuels is the single most important challenge we face in the 21st century.

For climate skeptics who are sick of climate hysteria and are more concerned about what climate policy is doing to gasoline prices, the logic is completely different, but the conclusion is ironically the same. While climate policy might be aggravating gasoline prices short-term, the true underlying cause of long-term high energy prices is peak cheap oil.

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