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The writer is a professor in the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University and author of ‘The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet’
The view that the world is finally winning in the energy transition away from fossil fuels is increasingly prominent. It tends to be buttressed by charts showing “exponential growth” globally in renewable-power capacity and generation in recent years.
Comforting as this take may be, we need to throw…