Dr. Deborah Brosnan, a climate and ocean scientist, predicts that Earth could eventually become uninhabitable for humans given the grave state of the planet
But we’re not just piling more and more on the grid. It’s replacing something worse, and those things wouldn’t last forever anyway.
The last coal power station in the UK is due to shut down in a month or so. Within a year or two it will be demolished. Would we be doing that without solar and wind? No.
Just existing has a carbon cost. It’s our duty to keep it low.
But we’re not just piling more and more on the grid. It’s replacing something worse, and those things wouldn’t last forever anyway.
The last coal power station in the UK is due to shut down in a month or so. Within a year or two it will be demolished. Would we be doing that without solar and wind? No.
Just existing has a carbon cost. It’s our duty to keep it low.