Sentences with phrase «cheap fossil fuels coming»

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And, at least in his recent video interview with Carbon Brief, it seems Lee, like many economists who came of age at the peak of the traditional environmental movement, has a very locked - in view that raising the cost of polluting is the critical way to shift global economies away from cheap fossil fuels.

We are happy to enjoy the comforts of cheap abundant fossil fuel (made cheaper by lack of regulation) as long as we don't have to look too closely from where it comes.

And it's not to overlook the ways that our cultures are any less shaped than the other cultures that exist in this country by the cheap fossil fuel high that's now coming to an end.

Another gem is mentioning that not a word has come up in the presidential debates about global warming and in the last debate Romney and Obama were competing over who could increase domestic fossil fuel production faster and cheaper.

Squeezed out by an abundance of cheap shale gas and ever tightening pollution laws, it may be a harbinger of things to come for other fossil fuel markets globally.

The failure of «cheap energy» is splitting Americans into two rival camps: one that is enthusiastic about needless subsidy of oil and gas and another that sees without fossil subsidies renewable sources and more fuel - efficient cars and trucks come out ahead in the Market.

Cheap (or free) power may be great for economic success, but as long as the power comes from fossil fuels there is no net reduction in CO2, you are just moving the generation point.

That remarkable transformation has come not from the forced redistribution of global wealth or renewable energy but instead from the rapid growth of the global economy fueled by cheap fossil energy.

According to a panel of development experts, sub-Saharan Africa will need to power its factories, hospitals, schools, and other foundational infrastructure with cheap and reliable sources of electricity, and, at least in the near future, that will likely come from hydro and fossil fuels.

But overall, especially with climate, since nearly all of the growth in emissions is going to come in poor countries, if you can't come up with energy choices that are less greenhouse gas emitting and also are cheap, they are just going to keep burning fossil fuels.

The increase comes largely from the fact that fossil fuels are cheaper than even the lowest possibility envisaged by the late and unlamented Department of Energy and Climate Change.