I’m very aware of that. The uk glass industry uses 9 TWh of power annually; largely because they encourage recycling rather than reuse. It could be slashed if they accepted re-use. The government could set policy. Shock, horror. Steel? You can make it green Plastic? Avoid single use
of course you can make everything green. There is nothing magic in fossil fuels, that's just hydrocarbons. But it costs a lot more without them. So basically people will be poorer.
It’ll depend on your definition of poorer. I personally don’t feel poorer, but that’s me. Question for you: what’s your message to the world?
Sorry, I'm not particularly interested in issuing messages to the world since I don't think it will listen to me 😅. I'm just an observer, and I observe that most people don't want to earn less money.
Whether or not you’re interested to be heard by people, you’ll have a way of living that will align with one or the other side of the argument. Burn all the coal we can find, it’ll be ok; or only burn what’s essential, because it may not be ok.
there is a flaw in your argument. Even if you burn less coal or oil, it won't prevent your children or grand children to burn what you left to them. Meaning that the climate will be the same at the end....
That’s up to them for sure? By that time carbon capture may have delivered. Who knows. I do know it’s unwise for my generation to exhaust our environment and leaving future generations with no choice. You got to understand that we are dealing with risks and risk mitigation.
I don't know any realistic scenario where CO2 capture is a game changer (e.g. capturing 100 pm or more) but if you think it will be possible then it's not a real problem to burn fossil fuels now, because you'll be able to capture CO2 in the future (for instance by burning wood in power plants)
CO2 capture typically refers to putting a big pipe on the end of a power station and pumping the gas underground hoping it won’t escape for a few thousand years. Even that is hard, let alone direct capture of CO2 from the air, and then there’s methane escaping from coal/oil exploration
CO2 capture is considering essential for net zero, in combination with boring fast growing plants, as that sequesters some CO2 directly from the air. If you’re looking for an excuse to burn a boat load of fossil fuels, you’re asking the wrong person.
Interesting point : if carbon capture is "essential',that means that we can't totally suppress the use of fossil fuels if we want to keep our way of life (if we don't want that, all problems are solved). So what will happen when fossil fuels will be exhausted?