Carbon Dioxide Levels Now Higher Than Ever in Human History
smithsonianmag.com
smithsonianmag.com
We need to set science-based policies grounded in physical and political(i.e. Russia) realities. We need nuclear now while we build out our renewable energy infrastructure over the next few decades. We need to allocate our currently limited resources, like lithium, to the most productive uses(i.e. hybrids cars and hybrid mass transit) while we figure out how to mine enough to build a completely electric fleet in a few decades.
This is not the time for energy policy guided by fantasies, whether those are eco fantasies that would starve humanity of energy, or techno fantasies that suggest we can all drive personal electric vehicles in the near term(and I say that as someone with an EV because that's what is currently incentivized, albeit wrongly).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638058
Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels (noaa.gov)
250 points by ingve 6 days ago | 478 comments