Shadowy Man
Contributor
What needed to happen was that about 40 years ago we developed an energy transition plan in which we invested in nuclear power and renewable energy sources and starting developing the infrastructure to make those become the dominant source of energy supply. We likely wouldn’t need to give up fossil fuels completely, and it likely wouldn’t make sense to in that overall plan.As to fossil fules, it is impossible to o cold turkey. It would be disruptive. Her heart is in the right pace, but like many activists unaware of the practical relities. Like keeping the food supply chain going.
But, since fossil fuels are still relatively inexpensive and carry high energy density in a portable format, there’s just too much incentive to keep making barrels of money from it.
It would take more political and social unity than most can muster to go down that route so now we should be thinking about adaptation to a changing climate as our primary goal. But that, too, will likely take more political harmony than we are ever likely to see.
Good luck to the future!