This talk was hosted by the Wits Pro Vice Chancellor for Climate, Sustainability and Inequality, Professor Imraan Valodia, on 1 August 2024. Sunlight outstrips fossil fuels by a factor of ten thousand. As a daily, never-ending resource, wind also vastly exceeds oil, coal, and methane. Proponents of renewable energy have yet to grapple with this abundance. Capitalists and socialists alike have become stuck in a trap of scarcity. Their battles over energy are repeating and extending the stalemate over land and other finite resources. There is no need to do so. This presentation explores a future political economy of light, ubiquitous, low-maintenance energy. Sun and wind lend themselves to more socialism regarding property and less regarding labor. Professor David McDermott Hughes sketches a post-fossil energy transition outside capitalism.
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12 сен 2024
