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Says the guy getting funded by Baillie Gifford.
No investment firm is part of the solution. Capitalism isn't part of the solution.
Actually it is. The issue of sustainable energy production solves itself as we speak. Not because of some activist initiative or international treaty, but because capitalism has turned green energy into a cheap energy
Capitalism incentivizes whichever enterprises currently controlling the market to suppress new innovation at all costs. Be better.
Right? Oil companies have been doing literally everything in their power to suppress green energy so that they can milk their dirty cash cow. Capitalism is 99% of the problem.