If the First Solar Entrepreneur Hadn’t Been Kidnapped, Would Fossil Fuels Have Dominated the 20th Century the Way They Did?

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By Sugandha SrivastavOct 18, 2023, 1:25 pm241 pts
Sugandha Srivastav is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. This article was originally published by The Conversation. CC BY-ND 4.0 DEED One argument put forward in defense of fossil fuels is…

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