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I guess what I’m getting at, is total energy needs/usage rather than an issue of fossil fuel or renewable energy. If our society requires more energy than is s
by newsclues 5y ago
I guess what I’m getting at, is total energy needs/usage rather than an issue of fossil fuel or renewable energy.
If our society requires more energy than is sustainable regardless of source, we need to construct societies that use less energy.
So let’s think about transportation. It’s not about switching from ICE to electric cars, but from private cars and suburbs to mass transit and dense cities.
Government is subsidizing unsustainable energy consumption rather than transforming society to lower consumption.
- stormbrew 5y agoI mean, money isn't a Real Thing. It's a social construct and in so far as government 'subsidizes' anything, it's really just changing the rules of the game we're all forced to play to favour a different outcome. They could certainly also subsidize shifts away from energy use in general, but these things aren't mutually exclusive and we probably can't actually get to carbon negative so long as we're burning fossil fuels, which is what we actually need to do.