Although renewables continue to be more and more attractive than fossil fuels, U.S. policy is moving away from clean energy in favor of
traditional fossil fuels like coal.
Not exact matches
And, at least in his recent video interview with Carbon Brief, it seems Lee,
like many economists who came of age at the peak of the
traditional environmental movement, has a very locked - in view that raising the cost of polluting is the critical way to shift global economies away from cheap
fossil fuels.
And this same period saw the expansion of
fossil fuel burning from the
traditional family needs
like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.