I regularly think about how anthropogenic(man-made) climate disasters will wake and accelerate the spread of the next influenza pandemic.(Every 68 years influenza pandemics repeat themselves in the pattern H2, H3, H1)

I spent some time yesterday pondering what would be necessary to quickly blitzkrieg carbon emissions and buy humanity time to research battery chemistry and build out a solar grid over the course of the next 50–100 years. We can think of battery chemistry as the big hurdle.

That’s how long an energy transition takes, and it always takes more years because the population grows. Humanity’s transitions from wood to coal to oil to natural gas have always taken decades because replacing the grid is a non-trivial task. To put it concisely, the switching costs are tremendous.

If we wanted to save the planet from climate change, I would think the following are necessary/vital: