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What the world would look like without fossil fuels

Author:     Shannon Osaka
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     September 30, 2023 | 7:00 a.m. EDT
 Link: What the world would look like without fossil fuels
Stephan:  

This is the first article I have seen in corporate media that addresses serious analysis of the transition out of the carbon era. That tells you something right there. I think this is the most important issue facing human cultures, including the United States. It is not getting anything like the attention it should let alone the action. We have Republican presidential candidates still saying climate change is “a hoax.” The only thing that is going to change this is voters. So always vote for candidates who place exiting the carbon era as a high priority.

Oil delivery equipment near Ufa, Russia, in 2016. Credit: Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg News

In any given year, the world produces staggering quantities of fossil fuels. Roughly 36.5 billion barrels of oil. Over 8 billion metric tons of coal. The United States alone extracts and processes over 100 billion cubic feet of natural gas. When those fossil fuels are burned, planet-warming gases are released. All that coal, oil and gas is the reason that September has already seen record-high temperatures and the world is likely to miss its goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

When climate activists march, chant or stage sit-ins, they are often calling for an end to those fossil fuels. Earlier this month at New York’s Climate Week, protesters urged world leaders to “end fossil fuels now” and sent a letter to President Biden asking him to commit to phasing out fossil fuel extraction in the United States. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres hosted […]

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