Your comment is of course completely accurate. The last paragraph is depressing though, “we have all the solutions, but we won’t do them because money”.
Bad news: large parts of the world have built their economies around coal and gas extraction, and the cost to society of those industries collapsing is harder to quantify
When the price difference is big, it’s kind of, ‘oh well, have to be practical’, when the shitty solution is picked. When the price difference is small and the shitty solution still gets picked; that’s depressive. That is when governments need to incentivice the better solution; cause capitalism won’t.
Your comment is of course completely accurate. The last paragraph is depressing though, “we have all the solutions, but we won’t do them because money”.
Good news: solar and wind are actually substantially cheaper than coal or gas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Bad news: large parts of the world have built their economies around coal and gas extraction, and the cost to society of those industries collapsing is harder to quantify
When the price difference is big, it’s kind of, ‘oh well, have to be practical’, when the shitty solution is picked. When the price difference is small and the shitty solution still gets picked; that’s depressive. That is when governments need to incentivice the better solution; cause capitalism won’t.