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The headline is pretty misleading... there has definitely been progress, but even the raw numbers don't indicate "halfway to zero". Emissions went from about 2.
by lacker 5y ago
The headline is pretty misleading... there has definitely been progress, but even the raw numbers don't indicate "halfway to zero". Emissions went from about 2.5 million tons per year to 1.5.
More importantly, most of these emissions reductions came from replacing coal with natural gas. That's great, but normally when a problem is half solved you can kind of just keep doing what you've been doing, and that isn't the case here. If you measure by "% of energy coming from renewables" we aren't anywhere near halfway to 100%.