Conventional controls are much less expensive and much more certain to be effective than attempting to reduce
fossil fuel use in order to reduce conventional pollution.
Reducing greenhouse carbon dioxide emissions
from fossil fuel use is considered critical for human society.
Reducing environmental impact includes reducing energy and water use, cutting back
on fossil fuel used in transportation, reducing waste headed to landfill and protecting natural habitats.
There's no mention of nuclear power and a pretty simplified summary of how to end
fossil fuel use with today's renewable - energy technologies.
Along with
cutting fossil fuel use to zero, removing carbon dioxide from the air is increasingly seen as one way to stop the long - term buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
All energy use and climate change authorities place the trajectory for
fossil fuels use as doubling between now and 2050.
[18] The proposal to
end fossil fuel use in a short time frame with no alternative is a classic example.
Wind can provide an excellent supplement to fossil fuels, but it's impossible to fully
replace fossil fuels using current turbine technology.
The inevitable conclusion, of course, is that first - world nations must lose no time in doing something «significant» to
curb fossil fuel use.
Indeed it is hardly possible technically to rapidly reduce
global fossil fuel use without killing millions of people.
According to the authors, these subsidies are important because first, they promote
fossil fuel use which damages the environment.
Their 2030 energy policy aims to increase renewable generation by 25 per cent and
decrease fossil fuel use by 40 per cent over the next 15 years.
Total fossil fuel use is over a trillion tonnes of carbon equivalent, which exceeds current proven reserves.
There isn't as convincing a scientific consensus that we should build clean safe renewable energy to replace 90 % of
fossil fuel use within the next 5 - 8 years.
-- Most of the reviewed scenarios estimate that renewables will contribute more to a low carbon energy supply by 2050 than nuclear power or
fossil fuels using carbon capture and storage (CCS).
After fossil fuel use, deforestation is the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, climate experts point out.
Many factors enter
into fossil fuel use in agriculture — fertilizer, transportation of workers, home heating of farm families.
It arises from multiple sources,
including fossil fuel use, particularly coal and transport, livestock, and includes cooking fires in developing countries.
How can a society turn its back on these individuals and deny them the right to increase their energy and
fossil fuel use so that they can increase their living standards?
The rich, prosperous,
fossil fuel using part of humanity has effectively become a geological agent in the planet's history.
Most critically,
liquid fossil fuels used in the world's vehicle fleet of cars and trucks can not simply be replaced with liquid biofuels.
However, reductions in
fossil fuel use ultimately depend on using the fuel more efficiently or replacing it with green technology.
There's widespread agreement that a high and rapidly rising carbon price is needed to
deter fossil fuel use and drive emissions reductions.
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