Sabbath for the Sky and Sea:  Electrification

The Bible prescribes a sabbath for the land.  Mosaic law specifies a year of fallow, where “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused…Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove” (Exodus 23:10-11) (Leviticus 25:3,4).  If they did not give the land a sabbath, the price was exile,^“‘Then the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths.  All the days of its desolation it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it” (Leviticus 26:34-35).

The earth needs a sabbath in the modern age, especially the land and sea, where carbon is accumulating from fossil fuel burning. Electrification is the most direct way to cleanse the skies and seas of pollutants, with carbon driving climate change the one of greatest urgency.  Because the electrical grid is quickly moving to greater proportions of renewable energy, primarily wind and solar, transitioning to technologies powered by electricity, rather than fossil fuels, offers a pathway to eliminating carbon emissions.