{"id":22644,"date":"2026-07-11T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22644"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:24:31","slug":"the-miracles-and-maddening-politics-of-the-clean-energy-revolution-the-ezra-klein-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22644","title":{"rendered":"The Miracles (and Maddening Politics) of the Clean Energy Revolution | The Ezra Klein Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green energy technology got better faster than most people expected. All new energy demand is now being met by growth in renewables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the damage of climate change appears to be bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would have been even further ahead in renewables if Reagen hadn&#8217;t ripped up Carter&#8217;s green energy investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China is the world&#8217;s biggest driver of electric tech. In 2025, in China and India, fossil fuel generation fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Miracles (and Maddening Politics) of the Clean Energy Revolution | The Ezra Klein Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogAZS7_RhhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green energy technology got better faster than most people expected. All new energy demand is now being met by growth in renewables. <\/p>\n<p>However, the damage of climate change appears to be bad. <\/p>\n<p>We would have been even further ahead in renewables if Reagen hadn&#8217;t ripped up Carter&#8217;s green energy investments. <\/p>\n<p>China is the world&#8217;s biggest driver of electric tech. In 2025, in China and India, fossil fuel generation fell. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ogAZS7_RhhA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[237,105,913,235,233,104,443,1058,1059],"class_list":["post-22644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-global-warming","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar-energy","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22645,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions\/22645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}