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Well, yes that's the next question. I'm not so much 'assuming' it, as
considering one thing at a time. It's the connection between energy
use and CO2, through the uses that economic growth multiplies, that is
why we're talking about them together. The question is how would you
disconnect them?
My reasoning is that if we continue growth and divert some % of fossil
fuel use to other energy sources the fossil fuel use could feasibly
decline temporarily but will still continue to grow in the long term as
all shares of the growing total will. Similarly, the side effects of
the alternate energy source uses will then be growing faster in assuming
a larger share of the total burden, and these might well turn out to be
just as bad as global warming. People, including myself I might add,
have been going along for years not considering what would be the effect
of switching over to 'renewable energy' sources when they begin to
contribute a larger share of overall energy use growth. If those get
too expensive the economies will just switch back to fossil fuels.
There's a hard connection between energy use and growth visible in the
evidence of approaching a global system maximum economic energy
efficiency, and the reasons why that would necessarily be the case as we
approach the limits of the earth.
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Marcus wrote:
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> Phil Henshaw wrote:
> > Sure, the technology is needed, but it'll only lower
> greenhouse gasses
> > if we end the exponential increase of energy use.
> >
> You keep assuming that energy use and net CO2 need to be correlated..
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