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A Global Just Transition — For Whom?

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How Clean Energy Can Widen Wealth Gaps

A WRI podcast looked at what happened to the local community when some seemingly underused land was transformed into the world's third largest solar energy plant. The landowners got money, but the local agricultural laborers lost out. What does that say to you about how clean energy can widen wealth gaps? And as you kind of alluded to earlier, the poor often get screwed either way. They do.

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