S5 E5: Jakarta, the Sinking Capital
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The Importance of a Transition to Renewable Energy
Our wealth and their poverty are not coincidental. They're linked. So, global South countries have been saying for years, you all in the rich global North need to help us. You can't just demand that we make a sudden conversion to renewable energy after you spent a century and a half building your wealth on fossil fuels. And it completely ignores a couple of really key things. One is that global North countries could absolutely and should absolutely subsidize a transition for countries in the global South. That's not a foregone conclusion. It's almost being completely ignored that renewables don't have to be a costly transition for them.
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