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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/05/2026

He's driving support for more renewables, even among blood-red Republican rural Texas ranchers, who have had enough of "DEI for fossil fuels": austinfreepress.org/renewables-a... The renewables transition is now a self-licking ice-cream cone, a flywheel that only spins faster and faster. 37/

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Renewables are now the ‘Costco’ of energy production, Bill McKibben says

Austin Sierra Club hosted a virtual conversation on May 6 with climate activist Bill McKibben on the current state of environmental affairs. McKibben has written influential books on climate change…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/05/2026

As Solnit writes, this is true notwithstanding the concerns by some climate advocates about the materials needed for the transition. 38/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/05/2026

Sure, there will be *some* extraction involved in mass electrification, and if that's done badly, it will involve stealing and destroying more land from poor and indigenous people. But we don't have to do it badly! 39/

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