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Decarbonization needs to happen anyway - that statement is issued as if its fact. A realist would would posit that energy independence, or energy security and i
by balozi 8mo ago
Decarbonization needs to happen anyway - that statement is issued as if its fact. A realist would would posit that energy independence, or energy security and its underlying national security implications should be arrived at by any means necessary, carbon or non-carbon based.
- adrianN 8mo agoSure, but there are really great reasons to get rid of fossil fuels and energy independence is a nice bonus. Countries tend to have multiple goals at the same time. It's nice if multiple problems have the same solution.
- nickserv 8mo agoEurope has little hydrocarbon reserves, so decarbonization is required for energy independence.
- pjc50 8mo agoYes, apart from small fracking possibilities, and the North Sea, which is shared between two non-EU European countries, UK and Norway. (as posted elsewhere, this was a critical problem for Nazi Germany!)
- Moldoteck 8mo agoNorth sea can be explored. Black sea is already explored through Neptune deep
- tapoxi 8mo agoCarbon based energy contributes to what amounts to be a multi-trillion dollar disaster and may even contribute to the destruction of a nation using it. Not to mention that such an investment is wasted capital. Change is accelerating and that energy infrastructure would need to be realistically dismantled in fairly short order.