Path to Zero
12 Climate Conversations That Changed the World
Tucker Perkins' Path to Zero shows how we can reverse climate change and create a cleaner environment for future generations by putting aside our biases and working together for change.
Climate catastrophe-inspired narratives like 'Electrify Everything!' have a grip on people’s minds. The simplicity of the solution to the most complex endeavour ever faced by humans – the journey to a net zero future – is seductive, but it is fundamentally flawed.
In Path to Zero: 12 Climate Conversations That Changed the World, author, Tucker Perkins takes readers on a series of future-casting journeys from the Year 2050 back to the present day to show us how a better way – a wide path to net zero carbon emissions – was, and can be, achieved in an accelerated time frame.
In this work, Perkins uncovers an array of practical, often obvious, measures the world can take to achieve a better, cleaner future inclusive of energy and power. Unlike other authors and voices of this age, Perkins shows us that change is possible, innovation is happening, and dogmatic devotion to singular solutions is one of the biggest impediments to progress.
Tucker Perkins is an energy expert with four decades of experience in the liquid and renewable fuels arena. He is a frequent keynote speaker to national and international audiences on energy topics and a commentator for major media outlets and the Schwab Network. His favourite topic is the future. His wide-path perspective embraces an array of pragmatic solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Tucker also hosts the Path to Zero podcast, in which he engages a variety of thought leaders in provocative discussions regarding energy and climate change. He has interviewed over one hundred experts on subjects ranging from the internal combustion engines to nuclear fusion, electrification, and environmental justice.
He is the president and chief executive officer of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), a position he’s held since 2017.
Tucker has a BS in civil engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Richmond. He and his wife Liz reside in Richmond, Virginia.
