In a Warming World, Clean Energy Stocks Fall While Oil Prospers | The market is focused on making money now and isn’t heeding urgent warnings about climate change, our columnist says. (www.nytimes.com)

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A columnist at Bloomberg has a similar take

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Luckily we have some rays of light in the darkness though!
I came across this other Lemmy post about Portugal and clean energy!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, a number of jurisdictions have hit the point where they can achieve 100% renewable electricity for short periods of time; California and Finland both come to mind as well.

It's going to take a lot more to get to the point where the world can do it on an ongoing basis though.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I can believe so.

We must always start with the smallest achievements!

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