Pretty much every major country has seen the writing on the wall and are pivoting hard to renewables. It's no longer even about climate change, or some other lofty goal. The reason(esp for India and China) is plain and simple energy independence. Investment into renewables pretty much guarantees long term energy independence.
It's mystifying as to why the United States is firmly trying to pull in the opposite direction and leaning hard on coal and other fossil fuels. Is it because the US is the largest oil producer in the world now? But even that doesn't make sense as it simply does not have the refining capacity needed to handle the volume of extracted crude.
Why would the US deliberately risk getting behind on the first major shift in the energy landscape in a hundred years?
khriss•26m ago
It's mystifying as to why the United States is firmly trying to pull in the opposite direction and leaning hard on coal and other fossil fuels. Is it because the US is the largest oil producer in the world now? But even that doesn't make sense as it simply does not have the refining capacity needed to handle the volume of extracted crude.
Why would the US deliberately risk getting behind on the first major shift in the energy landscape in a hundred years?