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Cui Bono	2023-12-31T19:23:00-4:00	/cui-bono/

Chachra notes that renewables may have high initial costs to implement, but that they “don’t have incremental costs, where every joule of output has to be paid for, because the raw energy input — sunlight, wind, running water, the heat of the earth — doesn’t require making a payment to the oil company” (200). It’s the solution, but it’s also perversely the problem, at least in capitalist culture: if no one’s profiting from it, who’s going to put the energy into developing it? And in fact might those who profit from it not coming into being instead actively work against it? Capitalism is, after all, built on scarcity rather than abundance, even while claiming precisely the opposite.