‘Bridge
to renewables’ – The logical fallacy, popular in the first decades
of the 21st century, that the problem of greenhouse gas emissions
from fossil fuel combustion could be solved by burning more fossil fuels,
particularly natural gas. The fallacy rested on an incomplete analysis, which
considered only physical by-products of combustion, particularly in electricity
generation, and not the other factors that controlled overall energy use and
net releases of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Taken from the highly plausible 2014 sci-fi
history-from-the-future The Collapse of
Western Civilisation by the American historian-scientists Naomi
Orestes and Eric M. Conway.
No comments:
Post a Comment