Re: “In a first, delegates at UN climate talks agree to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels” [Dec. 12, Nation & World]:
The United Nations COP28 local weather summit ended with the mantra to eradicate fossil fuels and be carbon impartial by 2050. Sadly, contributors skipped excited about the physics, economics and timing of that aim.
It’s simple to set a lofty aim understanding you received’t be round on your efficiency to be measured. They seem to not think about the wants of the 6 billion who’re striving for our way of life. In addition they appear oblivious to fossil gas being the idea for our total way of life and overestimate the flexibility of electrical autos, wind, photo voltaic, renewables, et al., to considerably cut back our fossil gas use within the subsequent twenty years. Can these applied sciences be the feedstock/vitality for aviation, transport, materials, cement, heavy gear requiring diesel, asphalt and the myriad chemical compounds we use in every day life? They can not now and are unlikely to inside a couple of many years.
We must be guided by science, economics and never lofty feel-good aspirations. For our and future generations, we shouldn’t have adequate tax cash to get it fallacious.
Dan Sjolseth, Tacoma