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Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa

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Re: Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa

#11

Gist of the article. China is a hero for ushering in affordable renewable energy. USA is the tired backward proponent of fossil fuels. This is an area ripe for change. Politics aside, how can we make the world a better place?

Politics aside, the Trump admin killed the solar tax subsidy.

Plus they gutted the EPA and routinely go to bat for hydrocarbon fuels

Re: Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa

#12

Meanwhile back in the USA, renewable energy is being politically shunned. The rest of the world advances, the USA regresses, China rapidly approaches dominance.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the exact reaction the NYT was going for with this article.

(In marketing and propaganda, you first define what you want your reader to conclude. Then, you write a story that leads to that conclusion - though without actually mentioning it yourself. This makes the reader think it was their own thought.)

Maybe I’m overly paranoid. But y’all know the saying. Fool me once…

Re: Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa

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post #12

Meanwhile back in the USA, renewable energy is being politically shunned. The rest of the world advances, the USA regresses, China rapidly approaches dominance.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the exact reaction the NYT was going for with this article. (In marketing and propaganda, you first define what you want your reader to conclude. Then, you write a story that leads to that conclusion - though without actually mentioning it yourself. This makes the reader think it was their own thought.) Maybe I’m overly paranoid. But y’all know the saying. Fool me once…

Having spent a while in South Africa, there seems a certain slant to the article in that the fail to mention that power was cheap and reliable under the white government and people are being forced to solar after Eskom semi collapsed under the corrupt ANC lot.

Re: Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa

#14

Gist of the article. China is a hero for ushering in affordable renewable energy. USA is the tired backward proponent of fossil fuels. This is an area ripe for change. Politics aside, how can we make the world a better place?

Aside from the obvious do what you can stuff, there's a big change coming with AI so we can maybe try to see that goes well?

Re: Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa

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post #12

Meanwhile back in the USA, renewable energy is being politically shunned. The rest of the world advances, the USA regresses, China rapidly approaches dominance.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the exact reaction the NYT was going for with this article. (In marketing and propaganda, you first define what you want your reader to conclude. Then, you write a story that leads to that conclusion - though without actually mentioning it yourself. This makes the reader think it was their own thought.) Maybe I’m overly paranoid. But y’all know the saying. Fool me once…

Is it your view that this set of ideas is mistaken? If so, kindly present some arguments.

Or perhaps you know they are correct but don't want to admit it, so you are trying to divert people's attention from the ideas to the question of the NYT'S intentions.

Re: Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa

#16
When global climate change first came to broad attention about three decades ago, the conservatives predicted it was absolutely certain that renewable energy would always remain so extremely expensive that no one would every adopt it unless the government forced them to.
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