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With a rising population, on the order of several percent a year, reduced per-person energy consumption cannot do much. It can only delay the inevitable a deca
by sandworm101 5y ago
With a rising population, on the order of several percent a year, reduced per-person energy consumption cannot do much. It can only delay the inevitable a decade or two. The answers are clean energy or a steadily reduced population. We are biologically adverse to the later, leaving green energy as the only option.
- bullen 5y agoGreen/clean energy does not exist. The only thing that has somewhat +/- zero impact is (edit: small scale) hydro. But hydro also requires hydrocarbons to build and maintain (don't forget the powerlines) and freshwater fish populations are impacted. The population will go down to 1 billion from here, that much is inevitable. The question is how fast it goes down and how much people will suffer: we peaked our growth-rate in 1968: https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth
- sandworm101 5y agoHydro is far from green. Dams flood forest, which no longer absorbs co2 and further rots into methane.