The public discourse on the clean energy transition often presents the move away from fossil fuels as a fait accompli, and its opponents as Luddites standing on the wrong side of history. A closer examination of decarbonisation efforts suggests that beliefs about inevitability are premature, and that technology – rather than regulation and moralising – is the key to success.
There is little question that young people today are more supportive of green policies than their predecessors, at least when it comes to responses to surveys. The increasing political power of pro-environment parties across the western world demonstrates that global youth is willing to go beyond street protests and social-media likes.
At the same time, in per capita terms, many western countries have been successfully decarbonising during the 21st
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