Confirming a regular theme of comments here, what global economic dips around the financial crisis in 2008 & the Covid pandemic in 2020/1 confirm is that only a decline in overall economic activity really has any impact on emissions.
Given that there has been no effective Green Transition in global energy use, those arguing the only response to climate change *must* be a form of de-growth clearly are right.... the problem is how to manage that.
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https://jacksondamian.substack.com/p/its-the-economy-stupid
@ChrisMayLA6 I don't think that's the case.
Over the past decade
- overall world energy use grew ~1.25% a year
- fossil fuel use grew ~1% a year
- wind generation grew ~13% a year
- solar generation grew ~27% a year
If the past decade's rates of renewable growth carry on for another decade - even assuming nuclear and hydro have 0% growth, 2030 will be the year wind and solar growth exceeds world demand growth - pushing fossil fuel use into decline.