The CEO of TotalEnergies believes that the renewable transition will lead to higher---not lower---energy prices. That's a very different view from the popular belief that renewable energy prices are falling so fast that electric power will become ever-cheaper. “We think that fundamentally this energy transition will mean a higher price…
  • @ByeEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    The idea that we can reverse climate change and planetary overshoot without some trauma for society is just magical thinking.

    Every optimistic climate change scenario involves hand-waving “technology improvements”. Because without them, you get exactly the scenario described in the article. Hell, most timelines for 2.5 C I’ve seen (which is still bad) involve carbon recapture, which doesn’t even exist yet. And it will have to compete with agricultural land. And nobody is going to stop eating meat, it just isn’t realistic politically.