From Guns & Steel to Grids & Batteries: A History-Informed View of Climate Action

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardDec 25, 2025, 4:59 am498 ptsHotTop
The past year of thinking about climate action has increasingly felt like thinking about markets. Not markets in the narrow sense of price signals alone, but markets as arenas where learning happens, capacity is built, costs fall, and political coalitions shift. Reading and in some cases rereading Guns, Germs,…

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