With a new government report projecting that America’s carbon footprint is on pace to be slightly larger in 2050 than it is now—a prediction that partially takes into account President Donald Trump’s attack on environmental regulations—green groups are arguing that only a rapid move away from fossil fuels and toward 100 percent renewable energy will be enough to avert climate catastrophe.

“Time is not on our side, but the growing mass movement to get off fossil fuels is our best hope.”
—Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch

The alarming findings, compiled in Energy Information Association’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook, are further evidence that incremental solutions to the climate crisis must be ditched in favor of “bold, aggressive plans like the Off Fossil Fuels For a Better Future Act, which calls for 100 percent clean energy by the year 2035,” Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food and Water Watch, argued in a statement on Wednesday.

“The time for tepid market schemes and corporate-friendly clean energy baby steps is over,” Hauter added. “Likewise, the transition from coal to natural gas has not helped reduce carbon emissions. Those approaches have failed miserably. Time is not on our side, but the growing mass movement to get off fossil fuels is our best hope.”