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Originally Posted by blender
Lots of back and forth here which makes for informative and entertaining reading.
Does anyone consider that energy shortages and high prices are actually the most beneficial thing that could happen in fighting climate change?
There is obviously a belief that we need to find a way to replace the carbon-emitting energy with something cleaner and many of the arguments here are correctly citing the obvious shortfall between our "needs" and what renewables are currently capable of. Perhaps the shortfall is the solution, at least until the technology is in place for a massive space-based solar array that wirelessly transmits electricity down to Earth.
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It's a bit of a double edged sword. If shortages happen, prices go up which incentivizes more drilling, but it also brings price parity to greener solutions. But if demand is too high, people go back to coal, as we are seeing, because it's cheap as dirt, and easy to implement rapidly.