To be clear, I don’t mean this in a ‘global warming is China’s fault’ way, but rather that the intractable problem is capitalism, or better that energy use is always inevitably entangled with the uneven development of capital accumulation.
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And it’s very possible that we need to understand both coal and renewables in China primarily as *cheap* energy, which along with cheap labour has made possible a large scale geographic and organizational restructuring of global production in recent decades.
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