About This Book
Clean energy is already cheaper and faster than fossil fuels—the only thing missing is the collective will to act on it.
Tom Steyer spent decades building one of the most successful investment funds in the country before walking away in 2012 to work on climate full-time. In Cheaper, Faster, Better, he draws on his experience funding cleantech businesses, driving clean-energy ballot measures and leading a climate investment firm to argue that capitalism—not government mandates alone—is the most powerful engine for scaling climate solutions. He debunks fossil fuel industry talking points, profiles innovators on the front lines of the clean-energy transition and frames the current moment as this generation's World War II: an existential threat that also carries the seeds of enormous shared economic prosperity.
For business leaders, investors and anyone convinced that climate action requires sacrifice over opportunity, Steyer offers a different vision—one where doing right by the planet and doing well financially are the same move.