“The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system.”
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Too bad that instead of driving down prices and encouraging the world to ween off of fossil fuels it has simply been sucked away by the insatiable need for data.
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This sums up how the self-appointed guardians of human progress are turning away from the rest of humanity at this crucial moment in our species’ history. Utterly shameful.
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