>in the short/medium term this means a massive increase in emissions No it doesn't. The resources used to build solar/wind/etc isn't even a rounding error comp

>in the short/medium term this means a massive increase in emissions No it doesn't. The resources used to build solar/wind/etc isn't even a rounding error compared to global consumption. Nobody is going to crush their brand new car to replace it with an electric one. Heavy industry is going to replace things on more or less regular replacement schedules not just dump capital assets to switch over unless there is a strong economic incentive. We are, in fact, going to half-ass it. Fossil fuel things are going to be replaced with renewable electric things not to avoid emissions but to replace old equipment when it becomes an economically reasonable thing to do.