Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/secondthought Check out our most recent Deprogram episode on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/thedeprogram/episode-82-tankie-discourse Solar energy is cheaper and more abundant than fossil fuels...so why aren't we making the switch? Why Cheap Solar Won't Save Us – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every other Friday! Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Citations and Further Reading: The importance of profit, not price, in renewable energy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 The price of solar over time https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/ How solar got cheap https://youtu.be/sUvaYycoWqI Solar deployment and investment stalling/declining https://www.iea.org/news/global-solar-pv-market-set-for-spectacular-growth-over-next-5-years https://www.iea.org/articles/energy-transitions-indicators Shell’s conditions https://reports.shell.com/annual-report/2019/servicepages/downloads/files/shell_annual_report_2019.pdf https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/060419-shell-sees-signficant-potential-in-electricity-but-investing-with-care https://youtu.be/VZEAgKZUNuU?t=345 Returns on wind and solar investment https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 How much fossil giants put into renewables https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621001420 Solar and wind used for fossil extraction https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/chevron-is-installing-solar-panels-to-produce-oil-more-cheaply Asset management firms aren’t sustainable https://capitalaspower.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220200_baines_hager_from_passive_owners_to_planet_savers.pdf 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 https://coalition.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Coalition-for-Action/Publication/Coalition-for-Action_Scaling-up-RE-Investment_2018.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 Fossil Capital, Andreas Malm https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/135-fossil-capital https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer/GEOS24705/Readings/From_water_to_steam.pdf Exploitation, violence in rare earth mineral mining https://youtu.be/XCECoZBZ5aU Where money goes in renewables https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/20/2/3/95047/Shadows-of-Divestment-The-Complications-of https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 Capitalists hate competition https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/accumulation-and-sabotage.html “Hole in the ground surrounded by guns” https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/02/26/radically-progressive-degrowth-reducing-resource-use-by-eliminating-inequality/ https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/03/30/the-voldemort-index/ Scarcity and oil prices https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/12/03/as-we-exhaust-our-oil-it-will-get-cheaper-but-less-affordable/ Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com