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imagine the President of the US and his "braintrust" accidentally making the world much more green and efficient by forcing a radical reduction in oil dependency

while they purposely end climate-change research including destroying billions in observation satellites by deorbiting them

the history written about this decade is going to be wild, if we survive it

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EU severely reducing its fossil fuel imports from Russia in 2022 cut down natural gas usage by 17% and overall energy consumption by 3%. So yeah, increased price due to scarcity help a lot in shifting around the energy mix.

It's a bit shit that hits poorer people relatively more than richer people. Governments can reduce this impact by subsidizing sustainable alternatives (like heat pumps). It's still leading to inequality (unless you give more subsidy to the poor), but at least overall people will hopefully benefit.

> overall energy consumption by 3%

Is it possible that some non-trivial part of that number comes not from increased efficiency but from losing some energy-dependent industries?

It might be difficult to separate that out from the effect of US tariffs.

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