> For example in the manufacture of solar PV, the solar panels themselves are counted, but since the companies manufacturing and processing the silicon need for these are in China selling to other Chinese companies, that is not counted even though all those fossil fuels used are used exclusively for the benefit of American companies.
This is simply inaccurate. US consumption CO2 numbers account for US purchase of solar panels.
Though I appreciate that there are some link here, you are still making backwards-looking statements rather than stating limitations about what could be. For example, this link:
Is of what was in terms of energy. Will it be that way in the future? Only if we let corruption and entrenched fossil fuel interests prevent cheaper options from being deployed.
Renewable expansion is just barely getting started. To declare "game over" already is fatalism and not founded by any sort of data.
Dollars are not CO2 emissions. CO2 is emissions. Our economic systems are constructed by law and convention, and technology is completely changeable.
I see lots of feelings and emotions in your post about frenzy, but we need all that frenzy. We need action and change, desperately. Economic collapse will not save us, because emitting 25% of our current emissions is not good enough.
The only solution is compete transition of the economy in all sectors. Massive change. I say get on board or get out of the way.
> US consumption CO2 numbers account for US purchase of solar panels.
That's what I said, but they don't account for the manufacture of raw materials produced and sold in China to aid in the manufacture of these panels, nor of the associated infrastructure causes. They therefore underestimate the export co2.
> Is of what was in terms of energy. Will it be that way in the future? Only if we let corruption and entrenched fossil fuel interests prevent cheaper options from being deployed.
Energy is effectively the same as economic activity. You are correct that if we could magically replace all of the fossil fuel usage with renewables we would be at zero emissions. But again, all sources of energy production have been rising.
> Dollars are not CO2 emissions. CO2 is emissions. Our economic systems are constructed by law and convention, and technology is completely changeable.
Again you are correct that dollars are not CO2 emissions, but dollars are a good proxy for energy (read Smil's Energy and Civilization if you need a reference for that), and currently the vast majority of our energy needs are met with CO2 emitting fuel sources.
> The only solution is compete transition of the economy in all sectors. Massive change. I say get on board or get out of the way.
Do you really not see the contradiction regarding the problem at hand and your solution? A complete transition of the economy is a incredibly destructive, insanely energy intensive process. Unless energy was already mostly renewable such a solution will only lead to the problem being worse.
I guess I'll get out of the way since this conversation has only further convinced me of how bleak our situation is.
This is simply inaccurate. US consumption CO2 numbers account for US purchase of solar panels.
Though I appreciate that there are some link here, you are still making backwards-looking statements rather than stating limitations about what could be. For example, this link:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...
Is of what was in terms of energy. Will it be that way in the future? Only if we let corruption and entrenched fossil fuel interests prevent cheaper options from being deployed.
Renewable expansion is just barely getting started. To declare "game over" already is fatalism and not founded by any sort of data.
Dollars are not CO2 emissions. CO2 is emissions. Our economic systems are constructed by law and convention, and technology is completely changeable.
I see lots of feelings and emotions in your post about frenzy, but we need all that frenzy. We need action and change, desperately. Economic collapse will not save us, because emitting 25% of our current emissions is not good enough.
The only solution is compete transition of the economy in all sectors. Massive change. I say get on board or get out of the way.