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Since addressing climate change is first and foremost directed at reduced emissions from coal – the most carbon-intensive of all fuels – America’s coal states are especially fearful about the economic implications of any controls (though the oil and automobile industries are not far behind).
This perspective fuels the risk of the so-called Thucydides Trap, in which an established power’s fear of a rising rival leads to conflict.
We all know that we are headed toward a new growth model – one that is more sober and sustainable, that depends less on fossil fuels and more on renewable energy sources.
All of this would make fossil fuels less attractive to both investors and consumers.
As a result, we will have no choice but to add other sources of energy – renewables, yes, but also more nuclear power and unconventional fossil fuels such as oil sands.
National governments introduce efficiency standards, taxes, and other policy instruments to improve the environmental performance of buildings, vehicles, and transport fuels.
Given that livestock require much more food, land, water, and energy to raise and transport than plants, increased demand for meat depletes natural resources, places pressure on food-production systems, damages ecosystems, and fuels climate change.
According to the WHO, of the 4.3 million annual deaths resulting from “indoor air pollution” (burning of solid fuels), nearly one-third (1.3 million) occur in India.
For example, Trump is trying to revive dirty fuels like coal, which powered the first Industrial Revolution, rather than investing in solar, wind, and other renewables that will power the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
Today, Information Technology fuels Taiwan's economy.
While President Bush argues that technological advances in hydrogen fuels and fuel cells will curb oil imports in the long run, such measures require major changes in transportation infrastructure that will require decades to complete.
Putin’s hatred of the Yeltsin era’s “subservient” relations with the West fuels his opposition.
Adaptation could allow for higher carbon emissions in another way: reducing the damage and harm that we experience from global warming, giving us more time to implement alternatives to reliance on fossil fuels.
In parts of Africa, sustainably developed biomass could provide fuels to assist in meeting growing demand for transportation fuels.
We need to use energy far more wisely while shifting from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources.
Escaping the Fossil Fuel TrapMILAN – There are many problems with fossil fuels.
But use of fossil fuels, and hence higher CO2 emissions, seems to go hand in hand with growth.
So we do not need fossil fuels to support prosperous economies.
But no such thief exists, and we are cursed with fossil fuels in dangerous abundance.
Some environmentalists claim that we will soon reach “peak fossil fuels,” making green energy essential not only for the climate, but also for continued growth.
Committing to phase out fossil fuels would strengthen incentives for technological innovation; and if consumer preferences are socially determined, even unsaintly consumers would lose nothing in the long term.
Sadly, the bishops have less influence over divine action than over economics: Whatever deity might have put fossil fuels on earth has shown no willingness to take them back.
Absent that, we should commit to leaving most fossil fuels forever in the ground.
A governing body that is not representative fuels uncertainty and frustration among those subject to its decisions, undermining the legitimacy – and thus the effectiveness – of its actions.
There are a time and place for tighter budgets and higher interest rates, especially when monetization of large government budget deficits fuels inflation.
One clear business opportunity lies in replacing fossil fuels with CO2-neutral energy.
Turkey fuels its growth by tapping international capital markets to finance its annual external borrowing requirement of around $250 billion.
Water also fuels tensions between countries.
Environmental, demographic, and economic pressures aggravate water scarcity, and the resulting unemployment and insecurity fuels social unrest, political turmoil, and extremism.
Moreover, even under the most optimistic scenario, the US and the world will still be relying mainly on conventional fossil fuels until the hydrocarbon era comes to an end (which few of us will live to see).
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