Wall Street Just Won't Stop Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry's Expansion

#WallStreetInaction #EnergyTransition #ClimateCommitmentsFailed #BankComplicity #GreenwashingExposed

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Wall Street just won't stop financing the fossil fuel industry's expansion

Major lenders are all in as Big Oil pivots toward plastics, pesticides, and other petrochemicals.

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☀️ We don't need to pave over forests or farmland to scale solar. Some of the best real estate is surfaces we've already built.

Parking lot canopies: shade cars, cut urban heat, power EV chargers. One study found Walmart could fit 11 GW of solar just over its Supercenter lots.
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Canal-top solar, pioneered in Gujarat, India: panels shade irrigation channels, saving ~90 million liters of water from evaporation per year at one 10 MW plant. The water also cools the panels, boosting efficiency ~7%.
scientificamerican.com/article…

Swiss startup Sun-Ways lays panels between train tracks. 11,000+ trains have rolled over them with zero safety issues.
electrek.co/2026/06/30/solar-g…

The common thread: dual-use. Share the surfaces we already use instead of fighting over new land.

#solar #renewableenergy #energytransition

Solar gets railed: clever Swiss pilot proves PV panels and trains can coexist

Finding places to deploy new solar panels is often just as challenging as the construction project itself – with productive farmland,...

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