#Renewable

A Green Certificate is a corporate showpiece for environmentalism: a slip of paper you can buy for the price of pride and peace of mind. Companies purchase it to shelf their guilt, citizens wave it to parade their love of earth—fueling a sustainable fantasy powered by goodwill, not results.

Renewable energy is a resource procurement scheme that issues stocks of sustainability fraud secured by nature’s goodwill. Hailed as a savior that will save the Earth in keynote speeches, it quietly relies on fossil fuel plants for backup. It courts the capricious investor called weather, while covering the risks of clouds and night with insurance named subsidies. Caught between idealism and reality, corporations and governments join hands to keep the theatrical set spinning indefinitely.