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Citations and Further Reading:
The importance of profit, not price, in renewable energy
The price of solar over time
How solar got cheap
Solar deployment and investment stalling/declining
Shell’s conditions
Returns on wind and solar investment
How much fossil giants put into renewables
Solar and wind used for fossil extraction
Asset management firms aren’t sustainable
Under capitalism production “is always initiated on the basis of prospective profit.”
Shaikh, A., 2016. Capitalism: competition, conflict, crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Renewables have increasingly narrow margins
Fossil Capital, Andreas Malm
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Exploitation, violence in rare earth mineral mining
Where money goes in renewables
Capitalists hate competition
“Hole in the ground surrounded by guns”
Scarcity and oil prices
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