We are told that we need to move away from fossil fuels to prevent climate change. This instead shifts available fossil fuels to the less advanced economies
Modern economies depend squarely on the availability of energy. Removing energy sources without appropriate replacements will strangle everything.
That’s not to say that we don’t need to phase out fossil fuels (we do).
The greatest irony is perhaps that we instead of replacing our own dirty power plants with clean ones as they age, and funneling extra resources to developing countries to make sure they can start out with clean systems, are rushing to tear down fully functioning machines and simultaneously pushing developing countries into the fossil fuel trap.
Modern economies depend squarely on the availability of energy. Removing energy sources without appropriate replacements will strangle everything.
That’s not to say that we don’t need to phase out fossil fuels (we do).
The greatest irony is perhaps that we instead of replacing our own dirty power plants with clean ones as they age, and funneling extra resources to developing countries to make sure they can start out with clean systems, are rushing to tear down fully functioning machines and simultaneously pushing developing countries into the fossil fuel trap.