{"id":2485,"date":"2025-02-14T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:26:35","slug":"the-economic-argument-for-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-economic-argument-for-green-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economic Argument for Green Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The economic advantages of switching from fossil fuel to renewable energy sources are undeniable and multiplying. Renewable energy costs less, offers greater energy security, is subject to far less market volatility, is reliable, and it doesn\u2019t pollute as much. Since there are no valid economic arguments against rapidly shifting to cleaner energy sources, the question arises: why don\u2019t we shift?\u00a0 The answer: Greed!<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Ridiculous Just How Good the Economic Case Is for a Rapid Clean Energy Transition<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/opinion\/economic-argument-for-green-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/opinion\/economic-argument-for-green-energy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780262545044\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economic advantages of switching from fossil fuel to renewable energy sources are undeniable and multiplying. Renewable energy costs less, offers greater energy security, is subject to far less market volatility, is reliable, and it doesn\u2019t pollute as much. Since there are no valid economic arguments against rapidly shifting to cleaner energy sources, the question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-economic-argument-for-green-energy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Economic Argument for Green Energy&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,40,60,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-politics","category-science-technology","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}