China is one of the world’s superpowers – and one of our adversaries – when it comes to diplomacy, economic dominance, and technological advancements.
Yet, in the global competition for who controls the future, China appears to be focused on the next century when it comes to clean and renewable energy while the Trump administration is ripping away the progress we’ve made in reducing the need for fossil fuels.
Climate Change, Ignorance, and Hate
In the 1980s, I lived near Wrigley Field in Chicago in one of the city’s courtyard buildings. That’s the type of building that people who don’t live here got to know in the movie While You Were Sleeping. The building had four entryways, each leading to a stairway that went up four floors and had two apartments per floor. The units were nice, and rent wa…
On It’s The Democracy, Stupid, Edwin Eisendrath spoke with journalist David Roberts, author of Volts on Substack where he looks at the intersection between politics and clean energy. Roberts paints a bleak picture of how the U.S. was already playing catchup on breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, but now under Trump, we’re ceding those gains to China and Europe.
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