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Of course, renewable energy is sometimes already cheaper than fossil fuels – when the sun is shining bright or the wind is blowing strong and consistently.
Improvements in carbon capture and storage technologies would enable some fossil fuels to be used safely.
That question is becoming increasingly urgent, because governments around the world, from Argentina to Canada to Norway, are supporting plans to continue producing fossil fuels and explore for more.
The reality is that limiting fossil-fuel production today is essential to avoid continued entrenchment of energy infrastructure and political dynamics that will make shifting away from fossil fuels later more difficult and expensive.
They should be working actively to engineer a just and smart shift to a future free of fossil fuels, not making that future harder and more expensive to achieve.
But this stability fuels fears that Somaliland’s people will activate the declaration of independence they adopted in 1991.
It will also be used to produce zero-carbon fuels such as hydrogen for ocean shipping and synthetic hydrocarbons for airplanes.
And energy-intensive industries such as steel and aluminum will also replace fossil fuels with zero-carbon electricity and hydrogen.
Recognizing that arming or supporting Islamist radicals anywhere ultimately fuels international terrorism, such alliances of convenience should be avoided.
But without a strong local AI ecosystem, today’s productivity gains may not be reinvested in a way that fuels spending and boosts demand for labor.
The manufacture of fuels and pharmaceuticals already relies on purpose-developed microbes that create sophisticated biological products.
Moreover, as rapid economic growth fuels a surge in the ranks of India’s upper and middle classes, many families are displaying their newly acquired affluence with lavish feasts at their children’s weddings.
Placing a higher price on carbon-based fuels, electricity, and industrial activities will create incentives for the use of cleaner fuels, save energy, and promote a shift to greener investments.
At the International Monetary Fund, the focus is on reforming its member countries’ fiscal systems in order to raise more revenue from taxes on carbon-intensive fuels and less revenue from other taxes that are detrimental to economic performance, such as taxes on labor and capital.
Carbon taxes should be applied comprehensively to emissions from fossil fuels.
For example, burning cleaner fuels helps to reduce outdoor air pollution, which, according to the World Health Organization, currently causes about 3.7 million premature deaths a year.
A dearth of water fuels ethnic strife, as communities begin to fear for their survival and seek to capture the resource.
Burning fossil fuels also has significant benefits, and we should weigh those benefits against the costs.
Most developed countries already have a tax of this size (and often much larger) on electricity and fossil fuels, although this also incorporates the costs of air pollution and supply insecurity.
CFLs and other advances can take us part of the way, but there are massive technological hurdles to overcome before fossil fuels generally become less attractive than greener alternatives.
As the advent of cheap smartphones fuels a boom in Internet access, online purchases will eliminate a vast number of retail jobs.
Given China’s size and its rising share in the global market, macroeconomic instability there fuels volatility in global prices for basic commodities and raw materials.
In the second half of the twentieth century, fossil fuels were abundant and cheap.
We continue to use fossil fuels because we can (means), not because they are good for us (ends).
Earlier this month, the pope and patriarch each convened business, scientific, and academic leaders, in Rome and Athens, respectively, to hasten the transition from fossil fuels to safe renewable energy.
Trump and his minions work daily to undermine global agreements and domestic regulations that have been put in place to accelerate the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
He noted that the oil companies are engaged in “the continued search for new fossil fuel reserves, whereas the Paris Agreement clearly urged keeping most fossil fuels underground.”
Scientists and engineers have given us the technical knowledge to move rapidly from fossil fuels to zero-carbon energy.
Indian engineers and entrepreneurs are one of the main fuels of Silicon's valley's growth; these connections helped to fertilize a world-class IT sector within India.
The actions that are needed are difficult to introduce, because they go to the heart of the world’s use of energy, particularly its use of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), which, when burned, release carbon dioxide – the key source of rising greenhouse gases – into the atmosphere.
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