“It’s a little bit like reading about manufacturing in China in the 1990s,” said Sophie Richardson, a senior China advisor at Climate Rights International. “Everybody was just so excited about the development of manufacturing and wasn’t it great to get inexpensive goods. And very few people stopped to say, ‘Is this stuff cheap because there are no independent unions in China?’ I feel like we’re sort of doing that all over again but now it’s everyone sort of waxing rhapsodic about the percentage of wind and solar power that’s used without asking any of these questions that make for a much more complicated story.”