16 MOBILIZING FOR WORLD WAR ZERO

To get to carbon zero, we have to fight World War Zero. (John Kerry may have coined this term, and I use it because it's a great summary of what we need: a wartime effort to get the economy to zero-carbon emissions.) Even if the situation currently seems mired in inertia and political paralysis, we have to act. We must rally together to get to zero-carbon emissions, to prevent a climate disaster that would be as devastating as any world war we could imagine. The odds are stacked against us, but we have a way forward.