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fatamSC2 t1_j7ifq6h wrote

Reply to comment by SexyOldHobo in Current climate policies lead the world to less than a 5 percent likelihood of phasing out coal by mid-century ,new study shows by 9273629397759992

Has nothing to do with it. You could be as green as humanly possible and the poorer countries will still use coal because they're trying to catch up and green just isn't feasible in those countries for the most part. Or at least not on any grand scale. So coal usage will continue on until green becomes VERY affordable

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reddituser567853 t1_j7j7quh wrote

Which will indeed be the case. Coal will be phased out economically, no matter how much you don't care about the environment

Solar also allows micro grids, a huge plus for the underdeveloped world.

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thomasrat1 t1_j7j325j wrote

That or global governments start to pay for poorer countries to switch to green energy.

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lowcrawler t1_j7jkjf2 wrote

Green energy is generally cheaper and more easily distributed and crowd sourced.

The argument that first world countries shouldn't pave the way because poor countries will choose coal is faulty.

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El_Grappadura t1_j7jvalk wrote

The big problem is that the western nations are overconsuming by a lot. The current state is basically: "We cannot allow those poor countries to raise their standard of living", because nobody wants to talk about the necessity of scaling down.

I am personally not d'accord with a policy that involves an abandonment of billions of people because the global elite doesn't want to scale down their obscene lifestyles. We are basically condemning them to die..

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