Have We Already Won the Renewables Revolution?

[kristopher]

36. That's an interesting thought...

But neither is there justification for ignoring mountains of evidence saying aggressive growth rates will continue either. I mean, just because you can make a true statement about a hypothetical set of assumptions based on no evidence doesn't mean that all sets of assumptions in the social and economic realm fit that mold. The issue isn't whether or not you can accurately use the word trajectory in commerce, because you can; and that is a simple fact of our language. The real issue I see you raising actually concerns the number of variables that are recognizable and whether those variables are controllable or not.

What I see is that we, as a species, have been working deliberately for about 40 years to bring these new technologies and the economic forces they represent to the point where we are now in the area of energy. We didn't just suddenly find ourselves in a world where the growth of investment in renewables and energy efficiency materialized by chance. This position and the change that is taking place are planned events over known landscape and set of oppositional and friendly forces.

To go further would be easier if you were more specific.