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How to Avert the Climate Catastrophe and a Financial Meltdown, with Eugene Linden
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What Derailed Renewables in the Year 19 Hundred?
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Research on renewables went into a coma for 70 years after the arab oil embargo. We passed that baton to europe, great britain, japan during the regan years and indeed set back research on solar by about ten years. But we're also, throughout this period, just pushing coal as well. The battle of the control climate change was lost in the nineties because india and china decided to industrialize with coal. Back then, had we actually put the effort into renewables that we could have done., he says.
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