I've been researching for the fifth book in my fictional series which focuses on climate change among other things.

We will never have the political will to get rid of capitalism and the one percenters, which are the seat of all our problems.

Here is a brief excerpt from my book. My character enters a parallel Universe in which climate change never happened.

It gives me a great deal of pleasure as a fictional writer to imagine what planet Earth might have been like had we made different choices. Yes, we really could have invested in a renewable grid in the 1880s, but human greed won. Here is the excerpt.

This world, one without fossil fuels, has stable levels of atmospheric CO2 and, thus, the effects of global warming and climate change do not exist.

In the 1880s everything in Walton’s world had gone to hell. A whole series of innovators living at that time could have stopped it. They'd developed wind and solar energy, and also understood the fundamentals of magnetism and electricity.

He realizes on reflection that it was exactly at that time, a renewable grid could have been developed. Then along came coal and it provided the opportunity for a few, like him, to fill their pockets. Walton could not say that he was surprised, and even felt sympathy for these industrial capitalists.

Even though he knew the coal barons of his Earth transformed parts of America’s pristine wilderness into death holes, and threw a thick cloak of thick dark smog over the future of humanity, he figured he would have made the same choices as them.