WA is expected to hit a new record for greenhouse gas emissions this year, and has no chance of reaching net zero by 2050 unless it changes tack, a government-commissioned report reveals.
Hardly: the key thing to understand is that renewables kick out enormous amounts of energy compared what it takes to create wind turbines and solar panels — more than a lot of oil fields do today. This makes it possible to create an economy which is based on extracting wind and sunlight, instead of materials which stored energy.
We’ve built a first world economy on top of resource extraction. Net Zero would throw us back to the fucking stone age.
Hardly: the key thing to understand is that renewables kick out enormous amounts of energy compared what it takes to create wind turbines and solar panels — more than a lot of oil fields do today. This makes it possible to create an economy which is based on extracting wind and sunlight, instead of materials which stored energy.