Solar energy is cheaper and more abundant than fossil fuels…so why aren’t we making the switch?
Citations and Further Reading:
The importance of profit, not price, in renewable energy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/…
The price of solar over time https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-rene… https://www.lazard.com/research-insig…
How solar got cheap 
Solar deployment and investment stalling/declining https://www.iea.org/news/global-solar… https://www.iea.org/articles/energy-t…
Shell’s conditions https://reports.shell.com/annual-repo… https://www.spglobal.com/commodityins…
Returns on wind and solar investment https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/…
How much fossil giants put into renewables https://www.sciencedirect.com/science… Solar and wind used for fossil extraction https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl…
Asset management firms aren’t sustainable https://capitalaspower.com/wp-content…
Under capitalism production “is always initiated on the basis of prospective profit.” Shaikh, A., 2016. Capitalism: competition, conflict, crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press Renewables have increasingly narrow margins https://coalition.irena.org/-/media/F… https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/…
Fossil Capital, Andreas Malm https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/prod… https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer/GE…
Exploitation, violence in rare earth mineral mining
Where money goes in renewables https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/2… https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/…
Capitalists hate competition https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as…
“Hole in the ground surrounded by guns” https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2… https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2…
Scarcity and oil prices https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2…
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