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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Of fossil fuels? There's no scenario where efficient use helps because it's the carbon emissions themselves that are the problem. Significant reductions in emissions are necessary, not being more efficient.
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More efficient means less consumption and lower emissions do I really need to point this out? Coal powered power plants running at 20% efficiency replaced by plants running at 50% will obviously result in a significant reduction in emissions.
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There's no future scenario where fossil fuels being the main source of energy works out for us. Change needs to happen, and many countries (China for one) are moving their economy towards renewable energy because it's the smart play economically, not for some altruistic reason. It's going to be profitable, and it will continue to be more and more costly to pull fossil fuels out of the Earth because the deposits left are harder to get to. Over the coming decades you are going to see shift in the economy towards renewables...mostly because it will become profitable to do so. In that case, any jobs lost in fossil fuels will be replaced in the growing renewable energy economy.
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I agree with this but to get there we have to use oil. China fully recognizes this their government has basically stated they are going to pollute and use huge amounts of energy to achieve sustainability. And also lead in producing said technology. Canada is squandering the same opportunity.
As for population yes we need families to stop have 5 kids or more.