There were no mistake because the decision never came up, it was never possible for the roles to be switched, the feudal lords of oil and gas industry is entrenched and fracking is just a natural continuation of their business, US need to have a fundamentally different culture and character which does not worship corruption for anyone to even consider making long term plan for the society at the expense of feudal lords.
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If the collective western liberal supposed order don't try to do a serious self- introspection, political reform, proper and real accountability to the supposed integrity or lack thereof of their journalism, business, military, the unfortunate slide down to right wing rule will be just an inevitability.
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I think climate change, while certainly a real global issue was being setup as another way to control the developing world.
Imagine a future were clean energy technology was firmly under the control of the west. Any time a developing country wants to industrialize they would immediately jump out and say "well you're powering your machines with dirty electricity, we have to charge you 50% emission duty on all goods you produce, for the good of the environment you understand. Instead of doing all that dirty industrialisation why don't you continue to work on agriculture and mining of resources and sell those to us. That suits you much better and its environmentally friendly."
Except they didn't factor in that when CPC wants something done and sets out an industrial policy for it, things get done. Now China is the leading country for renewable and they will try to play it down, Least the future listed above actually arrives, except it's China and BRI friends who charge the west emission duty because they are falling behind on adapting renewable.
I stumbled upon this person's analysis of the return of the Trump back into the presidency with a juxtaposition and a confirmation of the demise/end of the Western liberal international order, while also ushering the rise of American intransigent nationalism to the fore: Personificatus a Trump.
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There wasn't a gamble in that sense because the US and to an extend Europe didn't have serious intention of switching to renewables in the first place. The whole thing was supposed to be a money making scheme, where the West gets to dictate what is "green", and forcing countries such as China to pay the West environmental surcharges on top of producing goods for the West.
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US sponsored PNH execute an unarmed Haitian civilian in broad daylight.
As someone else wrote above, indeed they probably couldn't because of far too entrenched fossil fuel oligarchs. So they were in a way predestined to choose oil, while China had the freedom to choose either.
that world cannot happen though, as the oil/gas/auto oligarchs made far too much money from the status quo. The petroleum/petrochemical/automotive supply chain is still a multi trillion USD industry in the US alone.
Renewables was to them just a distraction, a useful way to tax the rest of the world if it happened, but they would never, ever give up their main industry for some relatively small side tax.
Kim Jong Un has achieved something his father and grandfather could not, a face-to-face visit with sitting US President that lead to defacto legitimization of it's nuclear program, and a mutual defense pact with Russia. That's pretty damn impressive.
Now if North Korea depletes it's arsenal, does China by law required to replenish and maintain the balance of power on Korean peninsula and NK's self-defensive capabilities? I think 1962 Sino-DPRK MDT is pretty clear on that. US getting it's taste of it's own medicine by invoking TRA arm sales on self-defense premise.
Trump's anti-climate position is simply because he is living in the past and always has been. He has been opposed to any new technology, and especially if his political opponents support it, he would oppose out of spite. There's no deeper reasoning behind Trump's personal reasons beyond that.
At a more systemic level, the fossil fuel industry oligarchs have a stranglehold and they lack the vision to move into the future, and instead try to continue their current status quo in order to keep their profits rolling in with relatively minimal effort. Changing would require actual significant effort and temporary decrease in profits.