Cory Doctorow on Nostr: There's an obvious reason for this conspiracy: the rich world is weaning itself off ...
There's an obvious reason for this conspiracy: the rich world is weaning itself off of fossil fuels. Today, renewables are *vastly* cheaper than oil and there's no end in sight to the plummeting costs of solar, wind and geothermal. While global electrification faces powerful logistical and material challenges, these are surmountable. Electrification is a solvable problem:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/09/practical-visionary/#popular-engineering9/
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