The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.
I’m not aware of any “Enlightenment Narrative” saying that our society is organized around Science and the fact that civilization is organized around capital, i.e. resources, is as obvious as the sun at high noon.
This isn’t going to change until and unless we truly reach “Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism” levels of post-scarcity. Don’t hold your breath 'cuz it ain’t happening anytime soon.
Renewables, not including nuclear, overtook coal in 2022.
30% isn’t “The best we can do.” it’s the best we’ve done so far. Nearly every State in the U.S. is busy building out Wind and Solar capacity and that isn’t going to stop, the number is going to keep climbing.
The real news in this article is how well the battery piles are doing at keeping the grid stable while meeting demand spikes. It’s real world data showing that the base load problem can be mitigated, or even eliminated, if you have sufficient energy storage.
The hell it isn’t! As societies approach 1:1 between working and elderly they quickly run into the problem of having enough people to do elderly care and do regular work. Japan is already experiencing a shortage of caregivers and the worst of it won’t arrive until 2050.
Then you are going to have to start killing the elderly because the plain and painful truth is that they are expensive. They require increasingly costly medical care to keep them alive along with increasing physical assistance as they age.
There is no magic wand to be waived where today’s elderly DON’T get out more than they put in…not unless they die when they quit working.