My journey into the troubling behavioral and social science explaining why humans "don't look up" when it comes to massive, slow-moving, divisive risks
This is misleading. One -- and only one -- political party laid the groundwork, invested a lot of public $$ and research and subsidy towards a current situation of profitable renewables. Texas, left to it's own politics and devices, would just be drilling us all into a deeper fossil hole. A better phrasing is that blue states carry the VC and after that, ONLY after someone else ate the risk, TX et.al are in.
This is misleading. One -- and only one -- political party laid the groundwork, invested a lot of public $$ and research and subsidy towards a current situation of profitable renewables. Texas, left to it's own politics and devices, would just be drilling us all into a deeper fossil hole. A better phrasing is that blue states carry the VC and after that, ONLY after someone else ate the risk, TX et.al are in.