https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series)
Majority of people will live in "dystopia lite", and top 1% and people they need ("slaves"?) will live in a better environment.
Europe has increased both, regardless of their rhetoric. China of course has increased both as well with more coal plants being built.
Most of the reduction in the US is thanks to fracking/nat.gas displacing coal. Which a lot of people are against.
Focusing on nuclear could get us a lot farther in displacing fossil fuels with nuclear as the baseline energy source.
Unfortunately most people just want to nag each other or cat-o’-nine-tails themselves or yell doomsday on loop instead of pushing for things that actually matter.
Meanwhile, back in the real world: https://ip-quarterly.com/sites/default/files/styles/dgap_tea...
But include them if you can. The graphs look the same.
We might have to contemplate things like geoengineering or whatever but thinking the future is bad is not enough. There has to be a positive vision, too.
That cannot the best we can do - there has to be more we can get out of an energy transition. For example, could have an explicit policy of wanting lower energy costs in high cost places.
Pushing down energy costs is certainly possible when switching energy sources (and also quite visible in data on effective costs per MWh for different technologies), however, it is rarely made an explicit target.
>"More than half of the 16- to 25-year-olds in the Lancet survey said they believe humanity is doomed. And close to 40 percent said that fears about the future have made them reluctant to have children of their own." [1]
We gave an entire generation anxiety and depression, and it's going to wreak havoc on the fertility rate in a decade or so.
[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/for-gen-z-climate-change-is-a...
Think of the children?? Lol, as if the environment being 20 degrees hotter isn't going to "fuck up the kids". The kinds should be worried. Many of them actually are worried and try to do something about it, it's the adults that won't listen or curb behaviors, or in many cases try at all - and at worst they call climate change "a hoax".
>We gave an entire generation anxiety and depression, and it's going to wreak havoc on the fertility rate in a decade or so.
That's a good thing, and is exactly what the planet needs - less humans. Every human added to the planet generates a non-zero amount of carbon. Adding more humans isn't the answer to anything, and it won't make anyone less worried for their future.
As a kid in Canada in the 80s I was taught to hide under a desk in case of nukes, and also I was taught about the greenhouse effect and it's relationship to our actions.
And if it isn't I'm sure they'll just magically figure out economically viable fusion or spray some aerosols into the atmosphere or somehow just magically fix everything.
I'm sure everything will be fine. That's why I'm not having kids.
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