Bummer: Use Of Fossil Fuels Increases As Date Of Climate Doom Approaches

It’s almost like people want to use abundant, reliable forms of energy, rather than ones which are not ready for primetime and are unreliable

Nations That Vowed to Halt Warming Are Expanding Fossil Fuels, Report Finds

In 2030, if current projections hold, the United States will drill for more oil and gas than at any point in its history. Russia and Saudi Arabia plan to do the same.

They’re among the world’s fossil fuel giants that, together, are on course this decade to produce twice the amount of fossil fuels than a critical global warming threshold allows, according to a United Nations-backed report issued on Wednesday.

The report, which looked at 20 major fossil fuel producing countries, underscores the wide gap between world leaders’ lofty promises to take stronger action on climate change and their nations’ actual production plans.

A problem here is that the NY Times is conflating politicians and such with dictators, believing that leaders are there to force the peasants to do as they say, rather than those politicians being responsive to the voters. Public servants.

This month, leaders are set to gather at a global climate summit in Dubai to discuss how to reduce their planet-warming emissions. But in the face of strong opposition from major fossil fuel producers, climate conferences have so far shied away from discussing a phaseout of fossil fuels.

I don’t have to go through that whole thing about tens of thousands taking fossil fueled trips again, do I?

“We cannot address climate catastrophe without tackling its root cause: fossil fuel dependence,” António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, said.

“Fossil fuel emissions are already causing climate chaos which is devastating lives and livelihoods,” he said. Yet, “governments are literally doubling down on fossil fuel production.”

Except, in a lot of cases, it is not governments producing, but, private companies.

And over the past decade, governments and businesses have made progress in weaning themselves from fossil fuels by ramping up wind and solar power, for example, and investing in electric vehicle infrastructure.

And most people do not want to be forced to buy an EV.

Yet the report issued on Wednesday, led by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute, found that nations of the world plan to keep increasing coal production until 2030, and oil and gas production decades beyond that.

Tell you what: let’s see all these “leaders” only use wind and solar at their own homes. See them only use wind and solar for their government buildings. See them only drive EVs when they travel.

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