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I’ve noted that on every recent Earth Day we tend to say the same thing: the transition to clean energy is happening now. And it is. But if that’s true; if solar and wind are cheaper, cleaner, and increasingly popular, why does it still feel like progress is so slow? So I’ve done some research into the remaining major barriers to adoption and looked at a few examples of who’s doing it well vs those who need improvement. The honest answer is that shifting how the world powers

We tend to talk about technology as if it arrives overnight. One moment the world looks one way, the next everything has changed. In reality, technological change usually unfolds much more slowly, but this can be difficult to notice if you’re not watching closely. A useful way to think about it is a 30-year cycle: roughly 10 years for a technology to emerge, another 10 years to build stability and infrastructure, and a final decade where it matures and genuinely transforms

Remember when the news was boring? When the “end of history” was being theorised by Francis Fukuyama as we entered the post-Cold War consensus. Those days look like a peaceful dream compared to the reality we live in today. It feels like every morning, when we wake up and check our phones (an awful habit, I know), there’s a breaking story about a scandal, a conflict, a market shock, or a new law. Politics, technology, economics and geopolitics now collide daily, often in unpr