Fearless - Thanks for the response to my post. There's certainly changes I need to make in my life, too, unrelated to drinking.
As for the topic, wind and solar have been and will continue to grow exponentially with continued cost reductions. In fact, the vast majority of power plants currently under construction or planned are wind and solar farms. The US is just starting to develop offshore wind projects, as well, which Europe has been doing for awhile now. In fact, the UK has halved its electricity generation from fossil fuels in the past 12 years, and California uses little if any coal and recently mandated it has to shut down its gas generators by 2045 with the 50% renewable portfolio standard while the remaining have to come from other carbon-free generation sources. Most other states can economically do the same if they want to.
The latest reports about climate change are saying that limiting it to 1.5 degrees Celsius is economically feasible with existing technologies. The solution is essentially to deploy more wind and solar, continue energy efficiency improvements, and electrify as much as possible, particularly in the transportation sector.
