But energy policy is not just about putting solar panels on everyone's roof, Right? Our entire system is incentivized to destroying our planet and the only home that we live on. And this is. It's. So long as fossil fuels are profitable and so long as low wages are profitable, people are going to be economically marginalized and feel like a coal mine is their only hope. And, and so the reason it has to be so sweeping is because we need to give our entire economy, I think, a golden gate of retreat and decarbonization. (27:22–27:36)
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