Spot on. The climate doesn’t give a jot about renewables or increased efficiency, just the number of CO2 & other GHG molecules we release, basically burning fossil fuels. Only when renewables, efficiency & doing less substitute for all fossil fuels will rising temperatures begin to stabilise.
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Elizabeth Kolbert
A lesson we never seem to learn: you can't cut emissions just by building out renewables. You also have to stop burning fossil fuels. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/c...
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Yet our behavior is simply unsustainable. We need to embrace a LOWER ENERGY lifestyle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_principle
And biosphere integrity is already a breached planetary boundary.