Don’t let the fossil fuel industry fool you. This isn’t an ‘energy’ crisis | Opinion
Roll out the drill-baby-drill crowd, add the oil and gas industry lobbyists and the politicians aligned with them, and you get the current PR campaign that is desperately trying to tell you that more fossil fuel consumption is good for y’all.
The war in Ukraine has obviously highlighted our societal dependence on fossil fuels. In response, several nations in Europe have realized their questionable past planning and current reliance on Russian natural gas. It prompted them not to double down on fossil fuel supplies, but to accelerate the transition to wind and solar energies, while temporarily seeking to substitute gas supplies where necessary.
We have known for over 30 years that human-made greenhouse gas emissions, mostly carbon dioxide and methane gas, are responsible for the rapid global warming we are experiencing. The fossil fuel industry’s own experts agreed and wrote to their management that unless the emissions growth was halted and reversed, we would experience the adverse effects that are a reality today. The forecasts were clear back then and have only been confirmed and further improved since.
This does not mean that we should stop producing oil and gas tomorrow, a straw man often beaten. However, it means that we need to start immediately to transition in earnest to renewables. Their technical and economic progress in the last 10 years has made clean wind and solar energies highly competitive in nearly all aspects.
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