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The Power Dynamics of Climate Change
Shifting from fossil fuels to clean energy disrupts global dominance and corporate profits.
Transitioning to clean energy isn’t a question of how much. Climate change is a political choice, and genuinely believing we can’t afford survival is illogical. Money and value didn’t create us — we artificially created them. We assign a monetary figure to life via a price-cost analysis because we can’t imagine measuring worth any other way, but existence is invaluable.
Considering what’s at stake, the cost is irrelevant, but if we must evaluate survival’s expense, renewable energy is more affordable than fossil fuels. Renewable energy companies incur lower start-up fees, stimulating new businesses, industry competition, decreasing prices, and profit distribution. Renewables aren’t perfect, but their imperfections aren’t the problem.
Renewables aren’t as profitable as fossil fuels because concentrated power and wealth aren’t achievable when countries produce energy. A transformation diminishes oil-exporting nations’ economic and political leverage by democratizing and decentralizing the market. Reducing dependency would radically alter everything because fossil fuels created the state of the world. For two centuries, controlling production and trade provoked wars, domestic and…
