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How do you know that progress won’t stop? There’s no market force encouraging lower carbon emissions. Your statement that wood has less energy for its carbon e
by mikeash 8y ago
How do you know that progress won’t stop? There’s no market force encouraging lower carbon emissions.
Your statement that wood has less energy for its carbon emissions is highly misleading. It may be technically correct, but since that carbon recently came out of the atmosphere, the net emission is zero. The actual trend, then, is zero carbon emissions, then a lot, then less. That seems rather uninformative when looking at where things would head in the future.
- guscost 8y agoForests are not a linear system. If everyone still burned wood for power we'd lose millions of acres of forest very quickly, and they wouldn't grow back. Unless/until the people died off I guess.