he Limits of Clean Energy" is the title of an article by Jason Hickel in Foreign Policy, with the sub-title "If the world isn't careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels." Here's the opening:

The conversation about climate change has been blazing ahead in recent months. Propelled by the school climate strikes and social movements like Extinction Rebellion, a number of governments have declared a climate emergency, and progressive political parties are making plans—at last—for a rapid transition to clean energy under the banner of the Green New Deal.

This is a welcome shift, and we need more of it.

But a new problem is beginning to emerge that warrants our attention. Some proponents of the Green New Deal seem to believe that it will pave the way to a utopia of "green growth." Once we trade dirty fossil fuels for clean energy, there's no reason we can't keep expanding the economy forever.