In the aftermath of Trump’s assault, the Greentech revolution in America is churning – both stopped in its tracks and driving forward.…
President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) into law on July 4, 2025. The law rolls back many parts of…
What we today call renewable energy was once America’s only energy. From the start of European settlement of America to the late…
In the previous commentary we examined the impact of the Greentech revolution on the production of energy. But energy production is only…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
The use of sun, wind, and water rather than fossil fuels to produce energy is transforming economies around the world. How far…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Energy runs the world, and how energy is produced and used is undergoing a historic transformation. As UN secretary general António Guterres…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Unpredictability is a core feature of the polycrisis. There is much speculation about what will come next in the world order, but…
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