Mate.... you have been listening too much to Angus:
Overview of energy subsidies:
The International Renewable Energy Agency tracked some $634 billion in energy-sector subsidies in 2020, and found that around 70% were fossil fuel subsidies. About 20% went to renewable power generation, 6% to biofuels and just over 3% to nuclear.
same sort of thing as above in the USA happens here in Australia. Here in Qld, they add hefty green energy charges to power bills to companies then give "rebates" sunshine to those who put on solar. Doesn't cost them a cent.
I don't understand why you would be against wind and solar, fossil fuels are from plants that caught sunlight, created hydrogen and wrapped it in carbon. The hydrogen is the only part that burns, the carbon gets gasified and goes up into the atmosphere and captures re-radiated heat that should be being reflected back into space. Solar or wind used to produce hydrogen creates energy that does the same thing only without the carbon.
Because of the inertia in transitioning from fossil fuels, the atmosphere is now flooded with too much greenhouse gas. The science, is both easy to understand and well proven and not even disputed by fossil fuel producers own scientists. Hence we are now exposing future generations to exponential growth in adverse climatic events. These are now unfolding at a truly scary planet wide rate if you care to look, the worst case scenario's predicted for later this century are well underway now, there is no going back. Using your rear vision mirror to try navigate the paradigm change we have caused in the balance of our planets biosphere, now unfolding in front of our very eyes, will lead to disastrous consequences. As much as you might try to consign these inconvenient truths off as fake news, you can see evidence, now planet wide, that the force of nature is increasingly extremely savage and unforgiving in its attempts to rebalance the equilibrium we have upset through burning fossil fuels.... yet you advocate combusting even more?
Humans created this fabulous existence we now enjoy by being adaptable to sometimes rapid environmental change. We all live with superpowers like instant worldwide communication, instant high grade nutrition, medical magic, long lives, implants, travel huge distances at will, consequence free sex and other pleasure, turn night into day with all of mankind's accumulated knowledge available at our fingertips just to name a few .... yet we are all ungrateful and constantly want more!
Sometimes we created crisis ourselves through over hunting or over exploiting local resources such as water, depleted soils or deforestation etc ... the answer to survival was always to change or modify our ways and adapt... never to do more of the same my friend, for to do so as a species would be suicidal. So even if you don't believe it, embrace it and suck it up, as if nothing else, the transition to green manufacturing will create jobs and untold wealth and Hio is no better example of a company about to exploit it
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