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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Because of population growth. More people = more energy demand.
You're asking new expensive energy technology to overcome global energy demand while at the same time being accelerated at an unprecedented adoption rate of literally no other technology in history. It's the way we have created our global economies, our global societies, and humanities way of life.
Not because Exxon is lobbying to not change gasoline consumption through US policy. Don't you see how myopic that is in the grand scheme of the problem?
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If the timeline of the transition had begun 10-15 years sooner than it did, the undertaking would have been much more manageable. Instead it's going to be perhaps the hardest challenge humanity has ever taken on, yet it must be taken on.