Somebody requested me the opposite day what stage of progress we’re making in phasing out fossil fuels in favor of renewable vitality. My response to this query hasn’t modified a lot within the 15 years I’ve been learning this topic: as proven within the graph right here, we’re undoubtedly making progress by way of decarbonizing the grid and the light-duty transportation sector.
A extra essential query is that this: If this pattern is extrapolated, and ultimately takes on the extra difficult-to-address sectors, e.g., industrial aviation and ocean-going cargo freight, will this be enough to avert the worst penalties of local weather change?
The reply is that no-one is aware of. Personally, I doubt it, within the absence of some main technological breakthrough.
Our civilization consists of 200+ sovereign nation-states, as have proven basically zero curiosity in coming collectively to deal with this existential menace.
