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Originally Posted by Azure
Saying that fossil fuels need to be phased out in the next 30 years or we doom billions of people is anti-fossil fuel.
Instead the goal should be to reduce emissions over the next 30 years to a level where warming is not going to cause massive disruption to our way of life.
And if we want to reduce emissions, we need to reduce our dependency on coal. The quickest and most cost effective way to do that is by switching to natural gas in the short term.
Instead of doing that, Europe and other places including Canada have become anti-natural gas, and now we are back to burning more coal.
China is building more solar than anyone else, and they have not moved the middle on coal usage ONE bit. In fact they are going to INCREASE their coal usage going forward. If that doesn't tell you have effectively useless solar will be to reduce emissions over the next 30 years, then you are blind.
Natural gas fixes our short term problem.
Renewables, energy storage, etc fixes it long term.
We THINK we can skip the short term solution, but it is becoming painfully obvious that it won't work despite the pompous stupidity in thinking it can and we can simply just stop using fossil fuels.
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I work in a rural town that had many workers who are employed in a coal mine/plant. They're deeply upset with the transition away from coal in this province. They express the exact same things you are expressing about fossil fuels.