Just think if we’d done this in the 1970s like Carter wanted.
Reagan was a giant fucking piece of shit.
Let me tell you, I read this staggering report and am staggered at how completely staggered it made me.
Is it the writer’s first time using a thesaurus? I guess the meaning kinda fits, but it would be way down on the list for me.
Also notable that this growth was hugely market-driven, in spite of what the conservatives will claim about how it’s all communism. The renewables are just so cheap. Even with subsidies taken out of the equation, solar clobbers any fossil fuel and wind is competitive. Coal is crazy expensive. Natural gas is barely neutral. Sure, there are some (vastly overstated) intermittency issues with wind and solar (especially if one is pursued without the other since the wind typically blows when the sun doesn’t shine) but the technology and policy to address that is progressing rapidly.
The shrewd investor should already be ditching fossils, not doubling down on them. LNG exports make absolutely no market sense; they are just a handout to big business that ALSO will destroy the planet.
The far bigger deal is getting the governments of the world to STOP doing incentives for already-profitable fossil companies. Stop giving them cheap/free permits. Stop letting them get away with not mitigating their pollution. Stop giving them tax breaks. Stop treating them favorably on the grid. Stop giving more pork to these useless, evil fucks.uture.
