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The Problems with Building Wind Farms

The LRB Podcast

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The Green Revolution and Renewables

There is an argument that there was a lot of pressure to move from coal to oil because coal was heavily dependent on the men who dug it out of the ground. And if you rely oncoal then you rely on coal miners and that means that capital is more at the mercy of organised labour. One of the put the push to oil, according to one argument, after the Second World War was to break that link. Once you've sunk the well the oil up to point pumps itself out of theground and you don't need those men anymore. So the argument of your piece about how do we have a green revolution or a green industrial revolution, a green new deal and at the same time

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