David Wallace-Wells
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first heard Jul 2026
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I'm not an economic determinist.
I think that politics plays a huge role here, as does culture and other social cues.
But when you look around, let's say the United States right now, in the United States, we have a president in the White House who is remarkably opposed to renewable energy.
He has done an awful lot to try to kneecap the development and rollout of renewables in America.
And yet last year,
When he returned to office, more than 90% of all the new energy infrastructure built in America was green.
What that means is that for every unit of new fossil fuel infrastructure we were building, we built nine times as much green energy.
This year, the share is going to be even bigger.
It's expected to be 93%, which is about what it is around the world entirely.
And with the Iran War II, we see many countries around the world looking at the logic of their dependence on fossil fuels and thinking, why would I continue to depend on fossil
international actors who may be malevolent or may just be indifferent, but they're not domestic.
They're international.
They have their own interests.
Why would I depend on them to import a power source and depend on them in such a way that I need it continuously supplied to my country at prices that they determine, not me, when I can just do a one-time importation of green energy infrastructure and then start to collect the dividends in the form of sun and wind, which never stop and are domestically
controlled.
And so you've seen in the wake of the Iran war, a huge number of countries all around the world, and I think most importantly around the developing world, who've made huge investment in policy recalibrations to promote a more rapid, renewable build-out.
So I think we're in a place now where, you know, if you're talking about this as a race, if you're talking about this as a contest, it seems obvious that the green stuff is winning.
The problem, which we could talk about, is that it's not winning nearly fast enough to avoid some of these quite scary climate outcomes.
I think there are so many reasons why I'm not happy that Donald Trump is the president.
Disaster response is one of them.
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