Nick Young 
There’s a limited supply of oil. It’s very expensive and wars are fought for it.
There is endless sunlight. It’s free and no wars are fought for it.
Let’s choose solar.
kravietz 🦇Not quite. 85% of the whole PV supply chain is controlled by one country - #China
https://www.iea.org/reports/securing-clean-energy-technology-supply-chains
Not saying PV is wrong on itself, but the current European model of “energy transformation” where all manufacturing was outsourced to a hostile country is just as suicidal as previous outsourcing of fossil fuels to Russia.
Brad MacphersonI don’t think it was a mistake on its own, it was certainly an emanation of a broader political philosophy - specifically the flavour of globalisation that also believed that change in authoritarian regimes is possible merely through international trade (aka Wandel durch Handel).
I very much hope we have learned that globalisation of trade is certainly desirable but only when certain mandatory conditions are respected:
- you only trade with partners who are actively pursuing the same moral, legal and environmental standards as you;
- you don’t allow development of dependencies on imports in strategic sectors critical for basic survival of civilisation, such as energy or medicine
@kravietz @nickofnz Changing the mindset away from competition as a driver, too, towards co-operation is really important. There's so much cool stuff we could all be doing together and to help each other, and instead we're trying to defeat the other bloke.
Stuff that, let's work together and make the most of our short times existing. There will always be bullies and arseholes, we can stop them in their tracks if we are strong individually and collectively.