Rob Socolow, co-author of an article in the 13 August
Science, says:
"There are plenty of money-making prospects related to production of what would be needed to reduce carbon emissions, such as 200 million windmills ..."
Aside from that horrifying figure of 200 million windmills, there is what we could call the Industrial-Capitalist Law of Thermodynamics: The only way to make more money is to consume more energy. The eco-industrialists will indeed make money with
these dark satanic mills but therefore they will not reduce carbon emissions.
An essay by Stan Goff in
Counterpunch examines the situation.