"Capital’s control over production, then, is also control over byproduction—control over what is produced unintentionally, which is not to say unknowingly. It is all too easy for capital to abdicate responsibility for the effects of byproduction: expelling surplus matter, by default, is costless. If surplus matter has no buyers, however, it nevertheless has consumers: as Commoner’s “second ecological law” asserts, “Everything must go somewhere.” Waste does not simply disappear because it is not valued economically. The ability to impose pollution on others is another aspect of class rule—and the inability to refuse it is a form of unfreedom in its own right."
Alyssa Battistoni

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/injury-to-buildings-and-vegetables/

”Since 2010, the world added around 2,500 GW of non-hydro renewable power capacity, about 80% of which was installed in countries that rely on fossil fuel imports. Without these renewable additions, cumulative global imports of coal and natural gas in these countries would have been 45% higher in 2023. As a result, countries have reduced coal imports by 700 m tonnes and natural gas imports by 400 bn cubic metres, saving an estimated $1.3tn since 2010.”

https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2025/executive-summary