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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew
Anybody else here think we are at the tipping point now or have already passed it? We need drastic change right now if it's not already too late. We need to get off fossil fuels right now.
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I also think that we are at the tipping point and 2050 for net-zero maybe way to late to undue the permanent damage we have caused.
That said, we cannot get off fossil fuels for many decades to come. Even if we gave ourselves a decade {little alone "right now"}, the world economy would completely implode, there would be wholesale starvation even in Western countries, and a plunging life expectancy.
Like it or not, over the last 200 years of industrialization we have built an economy based on fossil fuels and to even suggest we stop using them exemplifies how we really do under estimate how fossil fuels effect our lives in every possible way.
From sanitation, to food production & distribution, running of our cars, planes, trains, freight, transit, and cargo, medical equipment, plastics, construction, housing, heating, communication, manufacturing of nearly everything {including all those windmills and solar panels}...........we are completely dependent on fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels must be part of the solution at least over the next 30 or 40 years. The problem is not the use of them but rather what we do with them after we use them and where we put them. The issue is not the commodity but rather that we take them and stick them in the air as opposed to putting them back in the ground where they belong.