re: #25 silverdolphin

But I was surprised at how much the global per capita emissions are leveling off without any real authoritarian global push.

Resource competition is forcing the hands of people all across the world.

Trump and his delusional followers think the Earth is just a big egg-like thing full of oil just ready to ooze out.

A recent video put up by The Blaze is one of those.

But in reality we fight wars, especially over oil, because resources are precious.

See Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which among other things is a resource war, including over oil.

So contrary to the Trumpers and similar ilk, significantly increasing oil use is off the table.

The US is ramping up LNG plans significantly, and that will be doable for maybe a decade or so, until the natural gas sources (which are not so natural given what has to be done to extract the methane) start depleting faster than new discoveries can offset.

Coal production can probably increase a bit, so I fear that is a possible path.

And I will raise this here again: the Biden Administration is bragging about increasing fossil fuel production.

So while you are correct that renewable sources for electricity have grown tremendously, and now cost less per Watt than fossil sources in many areas, the conversion is still going to take decades.

But most of the carbon emissions are not over electricity generation.

Electrifying transportation is happening but there are many hurdles ahead.

Still, it think we should not give up.

We have to give future generations a slower impact of climate change than an all-out fossil-fuel addiction will bring.