Presented on The Old Mole Variety Hour , December 3, 2018 The report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released last month seems to have tasked the governments of the world, or more broadly, the human species with an impossible task: to reduce and eliminate the use of fossil fuels, by the end of the next decade. Doing so could prevent the most serious climate catastrophes that will otherwise occur within the lifetimes of most of the world’s population. We have the knowledge and tools we need to make the changes in the production and use of energy necessary to avoid the destruction from floods, fires, heat waves, droughts, rising sea levels, and crop failures. What has been lacking is a concrete, actionable proposal, put before the US Congress, that is equal to the task. There is now such a proposal before Congress. But first, consider how enormous that task before us is: . Every item produced, transported, and used or consumed by