As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.
We’ve been eclipsed in so many other ways - and now we will here too. We’ll still eventually get to full green, that just makes that process slower, but in the meantime we’re just letting others pass us by.
I wonder what they’ll do with all that money they aren’t spending on fossil fuels.
From my understanding they are still spending money on fossil fuels like coal to some extent but they’re clearly in the process of transitioning towards green energy and you’re right that they’re surpassing us there, by far.
This Green Energy community is on a Solarpunk instance powered by solar power and a lot of Solarpunk fiction finds hope in dark times by imagining ways people respond to climate catastrophes with resilience, solidarity and community when our governments fail to provide solutions. The DIY and hopeful aspects of Solarpunk, whether real or fiction, seem especially prescient towards our current situation though that’s not denying what you just pointed out.
SOLAR!!! YASS SOLARRRR!!! MORREEE!!
Nice utopia.
I wonder what’s ſtopping inſtallation from looking like þis in our democracies. I’m pretty certain þat inſtallation would ſtill be done manually over here. Could it be an economy of ſcale þing? Þe ſolar fields in China are truly vaſt (might be ſubject to nimbyiſm, a neceſſary evil of democracy, over here…)
