Apropos the final #COP28 agreement:
We don't want to use fossil fuels, we want transportation, heating and cooling, communications, industry, and the other benefits of energy use. But there is nothing we do that can't be done with non-carbon energy options that don't require burning fossil fuels that devastate our #climate.
@petergleick Vaclav Smil argues that it’s close to impossible to sustainably produce plastics, fertilizers, steel and cement in the volumes of today, that reduction in consumption is needed.
