President Donald Trump fulfilled the promise of fossil fuels, Fer -environmental regulations and direct climate denial, and now he is following. Its administration is destroying clean energy policy, fast oil and gas projects and remodeling environmental policy with radical consequences.
At the same time, however, there is another force throwing strongly in the opposite direction. A worldwide revolution of clean technology, one that feeds our homes, our cars and our lives without destroying the weather, is already underway.
The new generation of wind and solar energy, batteries and electric vehicles is in a hurry or have already achieved, Exhaust speedFreeing the severity of political capriction. In many places, especially in energy generation, the cleanest option is also the fastest, the cheapest and the most likely obtaining profits. That is true if you care or not the weather.
The world is generating impulse around clean energy, unlocking ways of growing economies and raising the standard of living without increasing the planet’s temperature. And each fraction of a degree that we avoid means more saved lives, less disasters, more stability and more of the future left intact.
It is 2025, halfway between now and 2050, the year basically stamped on all the main climatic objectives. That brings us closer to those deadlines that we with Gladiator, Kid A, IMACS and ice cream advice. So it’s a good time to think and ask: how do we get here? Are we moving fast enough? And what is standing on the road?
In this special project, Escape Velocity, the Vox climate team set out to answer those questions. We observe the places where climate progress still accelerates, advances changing everything to the scenes and the moments in which clean technology could overcome political resistance completely.
The United States has played a key role to bring the world to this point. But now, other countries are looking at leadership. At this time, we are having a strong hand, but our government is actively sabotizing it. What is at stake is not just a cleaner future, it is if the United States remains in the race at all. –Paige Vega, Climate Editor
Editorial: Paige Vega
Editors: Carla Javier, Miranda Kennedy, Naureen Khan, Paige Vega, Elbert Ventura, Bryan Walsh | Reporters: Avishay Artsy, Sam Delgado, Adam Clark Estes, Jonquity Hill, Melissa Hirsch, Umair Irfan, Benji Jones, Paige Vega | Copy editors and fact verifiers: Colleen Barrett, Esther Gim, Melissa Hirsch, Sarah Schweppe, Kim slotterback | Art Director: Paige Vickers | Data display: Gabrielle Merite | Photographic illustration: Gabrielle Merite | Original photography: Annick Sjobaks | Data data verification: Melissa Hirsch | Podcast engineering: Matthew Billy | Audience: Bill Carey, Gabby Fernández, Shira Tarlo | Editorial directors: Elbert Ventura and Bryan Walsh | Special thanks: Nisha Chittal and Lauren Katz
