Energy Transition Crisis Docuseries
2 videos • 333 views • by Macro Voices The single greatest challenge humanity faces in the 21st century is breaking our addiction to fossil fuels and replacing them with clean energy alternatives. For several decades we’ve known that fossil fuels are a finite resource that can’t possibly last forever, and that burning them pollutes our atmosphere. The risk of permanent and irreversible climate change has been widely discussed for over 20 years, yet to this day, we still rely on fossil fuels for more than 85% of our energy supply. If we get this energy transition right, we can usher in a whole new era of human prosperity, and give future generations the gift of sustainable, affordable clean energy that will never run out. Politicians want you to believe they already have a viable plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and that we’ve already made enough progress in this energy transition to begin phasing out fossil fuels. They’re lying! They talk up their policies of subsidizing wind and solar energy development to appeal to your emotions, hoping you’ll conclude that great strides of progress are already being made. They never mention that every single wind turbine ever built combined with every single solar farm ever built supplies less than 2% of our energy needs. The politicians never admit that achieving their stated goals by 2050 with wind and solar alone would require building 50 times as much new wind and solar in the next 25 years as we were able to build in the last 25 years. They never tell you that the Electric Vehicle revolution will require unprecedented increases in environmentally destructive mining operations needed to supply all the copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese required to build all those electric vehicles. They never acknowledge how much economic inflation will be caused by the policies they falsely claim will achieve this energy transition by 2050. If the politicians have this under control, why has almost no real progress been made after two full decades of broken promises? Our politicians are paying lip service to energy transition to get your votes and stay in power. But in reality, almost no actual progress has been made toward reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.