"Leave the petro-billionaires alone!" Seems to be the driving force
Imagine if the world had aggressively invested in renewables at any time in the past ten years!
Imagine if the world had aggressively invested in renewables at any time in the past ten years!
So, maybe when Carter put those (thermal) solar collectors on the White House we should have thrown a hundred billion dollars at solar panel work and had abundant solar power decades ago.
But no, Carter was "weak" so we had to instead elect the guy who ignored AIDS because he hated gay people, pushed absurd drug policy, put us in bed with the middle east, and started the process of removing taxes from any rich person and racking up national debt for stupid reasons.
Why was Carter "weak"? Well you see, Iran was a huge Bad Guy that we needed to stop!
Oh.
South Asia is suffering like anything right now. There is an cooking gas shortage. In some countries there is a petrol shortage.
But nobody will learn lessons from this crisis and focus to switch to renewables within a decade.