• Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is the most depressing point. Why would they. They will be long gone. Why risk their profits now. Fuck humanity I want mine now.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      1 year ago

      Leah Stokes’s book, Short Circuiting Policy, goes down what actually gets utilities to act: renewable portfolio standards, requiring them to generate a certain fraction of their energy via non-emitting sources. When the state public utilities commissions are given teeth to enforce those, they’re incredibly effective.