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Renewables are taking off rapidly across the world because they are the cheapest form of power full stop. We keep underestimating how much capacity they'll add. Existing renewables and other measures, while not sufficient to prevent a lot of harm (we still need to keep going), has already made some of the absolute worst case climate timelines no longer considered likely
In solid blue is what we've actually done and the lighter lines were our predictions and models for new solar capacity
https://chaos.social/@russss/114825851049843449
Something I have a less stats on and is more gut feeling, but in my personal life and online, I'm seeing a massive increase in the support for moving towards plant-based diets in just this last year. I was talking to one of my friends, in a city I used to live in, who told me that the veg fest near them was the most crowded they've ever seen it this year
renewables are taking off, but they're effectively banned in most of the western world
This is absolutely not true. They are also taking off a lot in the western world too and are the vast majority of new energy capacity. A lot western countries are trying to hamper them somewhat because of fossil fuel interests interfering, but they are not at all banned
Even in the US where the US government is even more actively trying to restrict, there is still a massive boom
Solar power hits new milestones in the US even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy
as said: they're effectively banned; not literally banned -- why split hairs?
The dominant form of new capacity is not "effectively banned" by any stretch though. This is not splitting hairs, it's just wrong
photovoltaics are the world's dominant form and the united states imposes a 15-147% tariffs on them while europe outright banned them coming from china before relenting and the situation gets worse for other dominant forms like electric vehicles with a 200% tariffs.
whether or not they're officially banned is splitting hairs when they're practically unaffordable to obtain.
No, I mean the dominant form of new energy in the US and in Europe even despite that. Not just the world. It's a hindrance, but a far cry from an effective ban in at all