> My understanding is that if we could turn off all the coal plants tomorrow we could actually significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. yes. in 2018 40%

> My understanding is that if we could turn off all the coal plants tomorrow we could actually significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. yes. in 2018 40% of all CO2 emissions were from coal: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions#co2-emissions-by-fuel https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis... that graph is the simplest possible way to think about "dealing with climate change". Its a checklist: #1 coal. #2 oil. #3 gas. Gas has been a "transitional" fuel in the sense that its made the last decade less bad than it would have been, but given the timeline left* its already too late to build new gas infrastructure, assuming you intend to finance it with 30 year bonds. * per the ipcc in order to stay under 2C emissions need to hit zero somewhere between 2040 for rich/western countries and 2055 for the whole planet, and then be followed by negative emissions for the rest of the century