High-Energy Repair
The book's framework for solving climate change through abundance rather than austerity, organized around four pillars: energy production, net-zero emissions, carbon removal, and infrastructure resilience.
The book's central thesis and framework. Civilization solves climate change by deploying more energy, not less, applied across four pillars: abundant clean energy production, net-zero emissions in industry and transport, gigaton-scale removal of legacy carbon, and infrastructure resilience to ride out the climate already committed. The framework treats the transition as an engineering problem with quantifiable milestones rather than a moral or political one.
First introduced in: Introduction; Chapter 1