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Environment & Energy

hunter

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5. The fossil fuel industry knows that "renewable" energy will only prolong our use of fossil fuels...

Reply to Eugene (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 2, 2023, 12:59 PM

Dec 2023

... especially natural gas.

Promoting renewables makes good business sense to them. It's more than greenwash.

Which is why, in the long run, solar and wind energy will do nothing to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses dumped into the environment.

Too many people seem to accept hybrid gas /solar / wind power as something "better than coal" or "transitional." That's just another flavor of climate change denial.

We need to quit fossil fuels entirely.

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