• HugeNerd ( HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ) 
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    2 hours ago

    Well go ahead and show us. Show us how human history up to 1859 was 100% renewable.

    Show us how to support 8 billion people without fossil fuels.

    8 billion people without fossil fuels and you think we’ll have exactly the same life and just magically switch to rainbows?

    • Hirom ( Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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      16 minutes ago

      2023 IPCC report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/ For a TL;DR see page 27 of Summary for Policymakers

      The Shift Projects publications on decarbonisation: https://theshiftproject.org/en/publications/ This NGO publishes sector-specific analysis often focusing on France

      Plans for energy and transport sectors typically improve rapid electrification and move to renwables, varying levels of nuclear, and a residual amount of fossiel fuel or biofuel. Combined with efficiency, sobriety in energy and resources uses.

      There was so much delaying and lobbying against change, that avoding the worse now require accelerating change in basically every sector, because every sector is dependent in some way on fossiel fuels. No single person can understand and know all sectors at a deep level. Analysing this require large group of people with expert in different fields. For instance the IPCC and The Shift Project.