Jeffrey Sachs
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9 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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unipolar power.
It's not the world's hegemon.
And the limits of American power, I think, are now very clearly in view.
And to my mind, this is very realistic and just fine, by the way, because so much of the damage in the world was U.S.
wars of choice that created a mess.
And maybe the U.S.
will reconsider
Next time someone comes in and says, hey, why don't you try a one-day war with us?
Maybe they'll have a little bit more self-restraint.
Well, I think the fundamental longer-term trend is to accelerate the fundamental move away from coal, oil, and gas to wind, hydro, solar, nuclear power in some cases, given all the complexities of that issue.
But the idea is that
For years, many people said that the move away from fossil fuel was important to save the planet Earth.
Then, because of China's advances in technology, more and more countries came around and said, you know, it's actually cheaper.
It's not just grid parity.
It's actually cheaper to go with larger solar fields, for example, because China had knocked down the price so dramatically.
Now there's another
argument in the air.
I hear it everywhere, actually, in the last weeks, which is that it is now a matter of national security to use one's own sunshine coming in, to use one's own wind, maybe to tap into the hydropower of the next-door neighbor and so forth.
but not to rely on the long distance transmission or trade in fossil fuels.
So there's a national security argument that has been added to
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