From: The Nation
By Michael T. Klare
Renewable forms of energy are growing far faster than anyone expected. But so is the use of oil, coal, and natural gas.
Here’s the good news: Wind power, solar
power, and other renewable forms of energy are expanding far more
quickly than anyone expected, ensuring that these systems will provide
And here’s the bad news: the consumption of oil, coal, and natural
gas is also growing, making it likely that, whatever the advances of
renewable energy, fossil fuels will continue to dominate the global
landscape for decades to come, accelerating the pace of global warming
and ensuring the intensification of climate-change catastrophes.
And here’s the bad news: the consumption of oil, coal, and natural gas
is also growing, making it likely that, whatever the advances of
renewable energy, fossil fuels will continue to dominate the global
landscape for decades to come, accelerating the pace of global warming
and ensuring the intensification of climate-change catastrophes.
The rapid growth of renewable energy has given us much to cheer
about. Not so long ago, energy analysts were reporting that wind and
solar systems were too costly to compete with oil, coal, and natural gas
in the global marketplace. Renewables would, it was then assumed,
require pricey subsidies that might not always be available. That was
then and this is now. Today, remarkably enough, wind and solar are already competitive with fossil fuels for many uses and in many markets.MORE
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