How did adoption of renewable energy become the drug of choice to treat the disease of climate change? No one knows. Wind and solar energy policies evolved over several decades without planning, leadership, effective communication, or stakeholder engagement. There was not---and is not---any vision, resource allocation, communication strategy, governance structure,…
  • KaTaRaNaGa@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    electric power generation, which accounts for a mere twenty percent of overall energy consumption, and only about thirty-five percent of total carbon emissions.

    Curious what the other 80% of overall energy consumption is from. I imagine a large amount is agriculture, but I couldn’t articulate why…