The Price is Wrong av Brett Christophers

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<b>Why the market will never solve the climate crisis and the urgent call to move beyond green capitalism</b><br><br>What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not capitalist profiteering from the energy transition, but that saving the planet is not profitable <i>enough</i>?<br><br>This is Brett Christophers’ claim. The global economy is greening slower than required because the return on green investment is too low.<br><br>Today’s consensus is that the key to curbing climate change is to green electricity and electrify everything possible. The consensus is also that the main economic barrier to clean electricity has been removed. With the price of solar and wind-power having tumbled, we are poised, say boosterists, for a golden renewables era.<br><br>But the boosterists are wrong. What drives investment is profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business, dependent everywhere on the state&rs