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I agree with some of your points...but I do have a question for you. I believe that clean energy definitely has some advantages, of course I do. But clean ener

I agree with some of your points...but I do have a question for you. I believe that clean energy definitely has some advantages, of course I do. But clean energy cannot be the whole solution. What happens in even the best-case scenario when everyone uses clean energy like solar/wind for everything? It will make humanity even more efficient and give us even more space to grow, but the biosphere will still be in trouble and all that clean energy will make people consume even more of earth's resources. So, it's clear that while clean energy is a start, it is not even close to an end to get people to be in equilibrium with the rest of our planet.

brmgb 3y ago
> It will make humanity even more efficient and give us even more space to grow, but the biosphere will still be in trouble and all that clean energy will make people consume even more of earth's resources. The global population will soon be contracting. The UN puts the bump somewhere at the end of the century but their hypothesis are completely crazy and most specialists think it will be sooner.
paulmd 3y ago
Yes, even if we remove carbon emissions entirely, if we continue to grow at a modest 2.8% a year energy usage or whatever, then in around 400 years we’ll boil the surface of the earth just from emissive heat without any additional greenhouse effect at all. Eventually humanity’s energy usage is going to have to flatline. And people really really don’t like that idea, but even solar energy has this problem. That’s still energy being captured that mostly would have reflected back out into space.