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Caddo Lake, Texas by Fred R Cox
Beneath the Giants by Joshua Reddekopp
Two stags stood like mourners out among the weathered graves.
The Midwestern Princess
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by Sergey Bragin
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Sakura Spring
If we continue to see the private sector as our savior from climate catastrophe, we'll continue to fail.
Veiled by discussion of headline global trends in new renewables capacity investment is the fact that almost all the incremental progress is currently being made in one country: China. Trumpeting 2023’s 50 percent growth in annual global capacity installations as a global achievement is wrongheaded, given that China by itself delivered nearly 80 percent of the increment. And the IEA, for its part, expects China to continue to be the sole meaningful over-achiever. It recently revised upwards by 728 GW its forecast for total global renewables capacity additions in the period 2023–27. China’s share of this upward revision? Almost 90 percent. While China surges ahead, the rest of the world remains stuck. This raises a crucial question. What is different about the development of solar and wind resources in China from the rest of the world? The main answer is that in China, such development is capitalist in only a very limited sense. Certainly, the entities centrally involved in building out new solar and wind farms in China are companies. But almost all are state-owned. Take wind. Nine of the country’s top 10 wind developers are owned by the government, and such state-owned players control in excess of 95 percent of the market. Moreover, the state is far from being a passive shareholder in these companies. The companies are best seen as instruments wielded by the state in the service of achieving its industrial, geopolitical, and – increasingly – environmental objectives. The best example of this concerns the gargantuan ‘clean energy bases’ first announced by President Xi Jinping in 2021. To be built mainly in the Gobi and other desert areas by 2030, these new bases will have a combined capacity of in excess of 550 GW – more than Europe’s total solar and wind capacity at the time of this writing. Such development is as far from ‘capitalist’ as is imaginable. This is the state, in its most centralized and authoritative form mustering whatever resources it needs at its disposal to ensure that it delivers what it has said it will deliver. Add to this the fact that the banks financing all the new renewables development in China are generally also state-owned and directed, and a stark reality comes into focus. This is essentially central planning in action. Does the profit motive figure? To be sure, it does. But usually only marginally, and it is ridden roughshod over whenever Beijing deems fit.
Monet's pond, Gifu, Japan / 異世界ひとり旅 ~Deep spot Japan~ ♡
Lovers in a Wood by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1871.
No road home, Brian Finke
The night rests against the balcony door - Leif Engström , 2023.
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Oil on canvas, 253 x 230 cm. frame.
Solstice night and day, Tjitske Kamphuis
SEAN MUNDY / “CYCLES” / 2020
“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.” ~ Claude Monet