For the price of the Iraq war we could have built a renewable energy system

For the price of the Iraq War, the U.S. could have gotten halfway to a renewable power system
David Roberts, grist.org

Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers — the needed investments to transition to a fully renewable energy system are in the hundreds of billions. The brain sort of shuts down when it encounters numbers lik…

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