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Originally Posted by Azure
I'd like to believe that the goal is to reduce carbon emissions, but I'm starting to believe the goal is to be anti-fossil fuels, even if it leads to worse emissions. Which, in 2022 is what we now have. Coal being used more than it was in previous years.
Nothing like 1 step forward and 8 steps back.
But hey, lets worry about lawn watering instead while China builds out MASSIVE coal burning capacity, and exports it all to 3rd world countries who need cheap energy.
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A few things here.
1)People who want to reduce carbon emissions are not monolithic and there's a large degree of variance in methodologies. It's unclear what you mean by the goal being anti fossil fuels. There isn't a singular authority planning this out. Every town, province, state, country, continental organization is doing different things to try to get there
2) the transition was always going to be bumpy. We haven't done this before and there's bound to be some issues. Include the sudden withdrawn of 40% of the natural gas from the European market and you'll see bumpiness.
3) Everyone needs to address the elephant in the room, and that is fossil fuel production is the source of employment for a lot of people. Only 7% of Oil and gas is used for materials so it's an existential transition that will cause a lot of pain in this part of the world. There are absolutely some people on the environmental side who want a simple antagonist in the story and use the industry for that. That cannot be argued.