The problem isn't us replacing fossil fuels, though you'll notice Biden has shut down a lot of US production WITHOUT any offsetting rise in production of energy through other means, which is kind of important.
Thus the rising prices.
Then the contradictory stance that he wants OPEC to INCREASE production. Huh?
But the fundamental problem is that even if the US completely changes, it won't move the needle on climate change projections due to the massive use of fossil fuels in other nations like China and INdia and the entire developing world.
So what will happen is that the US costs of production of EVERYTHING WE MAKE will be even higher than the Chinese and INdian production, making us completey uncompetitive in the global marketplace, meaning that the US economy will shrink significantly, and we won't even do anything to prevent climate change.
Hope is something best left for prayer. Policy decisions need to be based on the harsh realities of what we can accomplish in the real world. In the real world even if we accept the most dire predictions of climate change the only hope is to browbeat the rest of the world into changing while we change, or there isn't much point.
And the most dire of those predictions will no doubt be proved wrong. As VirginiaCat said, if you follow the doomsayers since the 1970s, like the Echrlichs, the Wordwatch Institute, etc. you'll see they are far more dire than reality on a consistent basis.
I have no doubt that humans are polluting our planet, and that pollution is bad. But there are numerous threats facing us there and some are even more of a risk than climate changes. I'm all for us and the world reducing their pollution footprint, but we have to be sober about what we can accomplish or we will not make any real changes.
Making policy b/c it makes us feel like we're doing good is useless and harmful. We need to make policy that ACTUALLY DOES good, and right now that's not what we're doing. Shutting down pipelines and drilling unilaterally with no plan for replacement will only move production back to OPEC and strengthen nations like Russia and China, and not really shift energy use on a global level enough to measure.
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