Christiano HaesbaertDec 10
Bodhipaksa

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601

By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … Its economy has been growing at 6% to 8% annually, and its poverty rate has fallen from 30% to 8%."

Dec 9 at 9:27pmWeb
Show threadbobocubedDec 9

@bodhipaksa

Can we get a physics professor here in the US to step up, please?

Show threadmccDec 10
@boelder @bodhipaksa And this is why Trump is firing all the scientists…
Show threadEric Branse-InstoneDec 9
@bodhipaksa This could be Scotland, except we are stuck paying for England's addiction to generating electricity by burning gas.
Show threadBodhipaksaDec 9
@EricBranse Additionally, with the power production companies being foreign-owned, so that money is being siphoned out of the Scottish economy.
Show threadEric Branse-InstoneDec 9
@bodhipaksa yep. We need more community owned wind farms like that on Yell, Shetland.
Show threadMorgan ⚧️Dec 10
@EricBranse @bodhipaksa yet another good reason for Scottish independence!
Show threadSu_GDec 10

@bodhipaksa
Great story! Thanks so much for sharing. 😁Telling precursor: “One of the most important factors in Galain's success was that his strategy was backed by the entire Uruguayan political system, which meant it would not be disrupted by changing administration. With this buy-in, he was able to modify the country's entire energy system: infrastructure, regulations, and market design.” 🤔

I love it that he now runs a non-profit & hopes to share the success in another 50 countries. 😁

[Repeating my comment from another boosting of this great story - because I think it’s so importance that political stability assisted, allowed, enabled &/or was a major contributor to this infrastructure development.]

Show threadgloria deiDec 10
@bodhipaksa Yes but it doesn't own the libs
Show threadBodhipaksaDec 10
@knord Ah, yes. The joy of destroying the world to own the libs.
Show threadNicole ParsonsDec 10

@bodhipaksa

I wish I could find a data visualization that showed how much of each country's economy goes to paying for fossil fuels.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years

The enormous drain on the GDP of every democracy is an paralleled transfer of wealth to petrostate despots.

$3 billion a DAY in profits gets sent to line their pockets.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-fuel-industry-subsidies-of-11m-dollars-a-minute-imf-finds

The industry gets trillions in fossil fuel subsidies, while evading taxation.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/fossil-fuels-subisidies-study

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trillions-dollars-fossil-fuel-finance-routed-via-tax-havens-study-says-2024-09-11/

Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years

Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert

The Guardian