Research from LUT University and 14 additional leading international universities suggest that the new system would be based largely on solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and direct and indirect electrification of almost all energy demand. An energy system that is 100% based on renewables has emerged to become scientific mainstream.
Why? The old ones still have all the leverage, if you see how the bourgeoisie state operate, at this point it is more that they make the state. After all, this is how the capitalist state operate in the imperialist stage, the merging of monopoly capital with a state.
Yes, you correctly point that the government is the only one who do have the power (short of a revolution but even after successful revolution the proletarian state would still to be established). But as pointed above, they do not have incentive to, since state is always the tool of the ruling class to safeguard the interest of said class. And in case of current bourgeoise states, the fossil barons are very important and influental part of that class. So any change would have to come from them.
This is also confirmed if you look at the current investments in renewables and general green tech. The state on top of the chart is China, which differs from let’s say USA in that it is largely command economy where the bourgeosie influence is limited.
They aren’t gonna unless something change drastically. Because fossils are more profitable, and this won’t change in the forseeable future. And the sole reaon of capitalism is to generate profits, nothing else. That’s why currently it is impossible for capitalist world to make such drastic change for the renewables. The minimal change needed for it would have to be nationalization of energy sector and it’s impossible now.
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Yes, but lumping “governments” is hugely misleading without context, like for example: subsidies per capita, subsidies per investment in green energy, recent changes in the fossil/renewables etc.
In reality we have China being global leader in renewables while USA Supreme Court just torpedoed one of the small shreds of regulation they had, and their new economic plan basically negates all large scale renewable investments because it first make it dependent on fossil industry recieving excessive amount of land. I’m not even mentioning other issues like fracking.
No idea about Russia and Japan. India most probably wont make it. Hell we also have EU there where Germany is in the hole after it bootlicked itself into energy crisis AND they probably regret resigning from atom immensely now, or France of which i just today read they are loosening environmental protections because energy crisis. Which (the energy crisis) is caused by USA and EU sanctions on Russia.
Also, what is really disturbing
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