There are more than 60,000 power plants in the world, the bulk of which are fossil fuels. Replacing them, with a continually growing power demand as newly middl

There are more than 60,000 power plants in the world, the bulk of which are fossil fuels. Replacing them, with a continually growing power demand as newly middle-class individuals begin to consume more, is effectively impossible without radical change on a planetary level. Never mind the concrete production for all of the new plants alone would release a staggering amount of CO2. Even if someone figured out fusion this afternoon, and could start construction of one plant on each continent (sans Antarctica) this year, with the plants going online late next year, we'd still need radical change to hold us over for (likely) the couple of few decades it would take to build enough of the facilities. Also consider ICE vehicles are still something like 90% of the annual sales in the world too. If you outlawed the production of ICE vehicles in every country in the world today, in 30 years you'd still have many millions of those vehicles on the road being used. Concrete, plastics, livestock... there are many facets to this problem.