WA is set to record its highest ever gas emissions as net zero looks unlikely, secret report finds
www.abc.net.au
WA is expected to hit a new record for greenhouse gas emissions this year, and has no chance of reaching net zero by 2050 unless it changes tack, a government-commissioned report reveals.
  • metaStatic@kbin.social
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    2 months ago

    We’ve built a first world economy on top of resource extraction. Net Zero would throw us back to the fucking stone age.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      2 months ago

      Hardly: the key thing to understand is that renewables kick out enormous amounts of energy compared what it takes to create wind turbines and solar panels — more than a lot of oil fields do today. This makes it possible to create an economy which is based on extracting wind and sunlight, instead of materials which stored energy.