There is an alternative that is greener than zero. We’ve spent a decade treating “net zero” as the summit. But zero is just the point where we stop making things worse. It is not the same as making things better — and it quietly accepts a model where energy is generated far away, pushed down long wires, and metered to people who had no say in any of it. There is another route. Instead of pouring national money into ever-larger grid-scale generation and the transmission upgrad
