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From The Guardian - Climate Change
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“We are taking a devastating risk with the green energy sector – one that might cost us our future | Brett Christophers”
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- We are living through perhaps the biggest and most important policy experiment in human history, without even being aware of it: we have been relying primarily on the private sector to put an end to the climate crisis. But this experiment increasingly looks like a mistake, and one that may cost us our planetary future.
- Take the S&P Global Clean Energy Index, which measures the stock performance of leading companies in clean energy, especially solar and wind power. Since the beginning of 2021, this index has lost more than half its value. Champions of the sector waved this off as a teething problem. But now more than three years have passed.
- Generally speaking, governments – again, putting China notably aside – have placed responsibility for “solving” the climate crisis squarely on the private sector. In particular, they have asked it to do the heavy lifting of substituting clean for dirty energy, with governments’ roles limited to providing incentives of various kinds, such as long-term revenue guarantees in the UK’s case, and tax credits in the US.
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