David Wallace-Wells: The U.S. Is Handing the Baton to China

2025-07-17 · 68 min · 12 entities

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While the Trump administration is doubling down on fossil fuels, China is annihilating us in the clean energy space. Right now, 75% of all renewable projects anywhere in the world are being built by a Chinese company. China is dominating the green energy supply chain with solar panels and batteries, and its electric car can charge in five minutes. The U.S. may be betting on AI, but that build-out needs cheap, fast energy—like wind or solar. We may have thought modernity was a Western story, but that may not be the case. Meanwhile, inland flooding could be the new face of the climate crisis, Silicon Valley overlords want to live in a sci-fi novel, and the Epstein story has legs because it's about elite impunity. David Wallace-Wells joins Tim Miller. show notes David on the increasing occurrence of inland flooding, and how we respond (gift) David's newsletter on the mystery of rich, powerful people hanging out w/ Epstein David's book, “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming"