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Sure, but that’s like saying the simplest way to solve water shortages is to just stop drinking it.

• megabless123 3y ago
  not a fair comparison. water does not have alternatives.
  • chii 3y ago
    but it is a fair comparison - there's currently no real alternatives for fossil fuels. Renewables do not have the density required for a lot of transportation, not to mention fossil fuels like oil are the feedstock for a lot of chemicals required for modern day manufacturing. Some sources of electricity could be replaced by renewables, but not all. And certainly not as cheaply as oil or gas is.
    • meristohm 3y ago
      To what degree could we be okay using less energy?
    • oneshtein 3y ago
      Alternative to fossil fuels are synthetic fuels, for example E85 (ethanol 85%). Government can subsidize a clean local production of ethanol from air, like it did for solar panels, to boot start it.
  • sanderjd 3y ago
    We also do not - yet! - have carbon-neutral alternatives for energy usage, either in amount or kind. This is why people are working both to scale up the kinds of energy use that is already carbon-neutral but which there is not yet enough of, and to figure out alternatives for things that do not already have carbon-neutral solutions.