How did adoption of renewable energy become the drug of choice to treat the disease of climate change? No one knows. Wind and solar energy policies evolved over several decades without planning, leadership, effective communication, or stakeholder engagement. There was not---and is not---any vision, resource allocation, communication strategy, governance structure,…
I appreciate the pointed pessimism about, in reality, the philosophy of whether technology can save our current way of life.
I agree that energy reduction is job 1. Not solely us individuals, primarily the big industries. It’s good that we’re using electric arc furnaces to smelt steel for example, no more of those tremendous vats of molten metal ala terminator 2. The output is a lot purer too.
We’re getting better at doing more with less.
Is collapse inevitable? Maybe. But I agree with Mr Berman here, we need to be honest with each other.