The Shape of Time | John Michael Greer

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3. Except that we have all the energy we need for free right now.

The sun gives us all the energy we can ever use, and yet we instead dig up crappy oil and gas to burn and destroy our planet in the process. It's not like there is no alternative that is clean, free and limitless. It's just that we refuse to change because a handful of old rich people still want to do it the old and dirty way.

Can you imagine what could be done if BP or Exxon put their profits to work making solar technology available? Right now the big oil corporations are like the telegraph companies of old who never changed over to the telephone. Whole new companies had to be created to introduce the phone because the old corporations did not want to change over from the the telegraph.