An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp — Good news/bad news from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr: Renewable energy is set to double by the end of the decade. But it needs to triple.
Clean energy is going through the same kind of boom that transformed the Internet and other emerging technologies in the last century—though in the case of past emerging technologies, big business drove demand while in the case of clean energy, the big fossil fuel companies are slowing it down, Cory says.
According to research, we’ll hit peak demand for fossil fuels this year or next, says Cory, adding:
The reason for this is that so much renewable energy is about to come online, and it is so goddamned cheap, that we are about to undergo a huge shift in our energy consumption patterns. This past decade saw a 12-fold increase in solar capacity, a 180-fold increase in battery storage, and a 100-fold increase in EV sales. China is leading the world in a cleantech transition, with the EU in close second. Cleantech is surging in places where energy demand is also still growing, like India and Vietnam. Fossil fuel use has already peaked in Thailand, South Africa and every country in Latin America.”