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Martin Wolf, the Financial Times columnist says, “Across-the-board rivalry with China is becoming an organising principle of US economic, foreign and security policies.”It is too late. America Cannot Challenge or Compete with China.China is ten times older, has ten times more smart people and its economy is one-third bigger and growing three times faster than America’s.People: Americans no longer feel the need for extra effort, while Chinese students have clear plans for their professional future and, as employees, willingly make the extra effort for their firms. American unions are adversarial and distrustful while China has the highest union participation on earth yet employees fully understand that businesses must make money to pay their salaries.Social harmony: Confucius, the great political scientist observed, “Rulers who led their people to the Realm of Lesser Prosperity, a xiaokang[1] lifestyle, were themselves pillars of courtesy, sincerity, justice and virtue while those who did not lost power and everyone regarded them as pests”. Low crime, no religious nonsense or Islamic violence. Companies can invest safely without fear of religious unrest, violence or robbery.Education: Chinese high school students graduate three years ahead of America’s. One-fourth of the world’s STEM workers are Chinese, an intellectual workforce eight times larger and growing six times faster than America’s. By 2025, China will have more technologically skilled workers than the entire OECD (USA, EU, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and Turkey) combined. Two percent of Chinese–twenty-eight million people–have an IQ of 140 (‘gifted’), sufficient for membership in Mensa. The Chinese overall five point IQ advantage over Americans means that they have 300,000 people with 160 IQ, compared to 10,000 in the US. [Thanks to Frans Vandenbossche, Zakelijk China, scherp in beeld gebracht]. No country has so many smart, fast thinking people as China. Not just students or professionals, but ordinary people. To quote a friend who hires workers for factories in the US and China,“Manufacturing in the US is a nightmare. At our facility our only requirement for a assembler was a high school degree, US citizenship, passing a drug and criminal background check and then passing a simple assembly test: looking at an assembly engineering drawing and then putting the components together. While the vast majority of Americans were unable to complete the assembly test, in China they completed it in half the time and 100% of applicants passed. An assembler position in the US would average 30 interviews a day and get 29 rejections, not to mention all the HR hassles of assemblers walking off shift, excessive lateness, stealing from work, slow work speed and poor attitudes. The position starts at $12 an hour in flyover country which is pretty reasonable compared to other jobs that only require a GED and no prior work experience and offers medical, dental and annual raises with plenty of opportunity to move up in the company and earn the average salary for a Production Assembler, $33,029 in US, if they stayed for 5+ years.“Identical positions in China pays the same wages as other positions there with only a high school degree and no work experience. Yet the applicant quality is much higher, and this also applies to the white collar support professionals: schedulers, quality inspectors, equipment testers and calibrators, engineers, supply chain managers, account managers, sales. Their labor quality is simply higher. At the end of the day, high-end and middling manufacturing is not moving to either the US or Mexico because average people in flyover country are dumb as rocks.”Social Indicators: By 2021 every Chinese will have a home, a job, plenty of food, education, safe streets, health- and old age care. 500,000,000 urban Chinese will have more net worth and disposable income than the average American, their mothers and infants will be less likely to die in childbirth, their children will graduate from high school three years ahead of American kids and live longer, healthier lives and there will be more drug addicts, suicides and executions, more homeless, poor, hungry and imprisoned people in America than in China.Leadership: China has professional, non-factional government. President Trump observed, “Their leaders are much smarter than ours. It’s like taking the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and having them play your high school football team.” China’s government is forward-looking, decentralized, efficient and thrifty. The Government Entrance Examination selects the top 2% of graduates each year and success is the only avenue to power, responsibility (and even deification, since China’s Gods are democratically chosen and millions of pilgrims visit deified officials’ shrines each year). The 200 members of the State Council–all promoted on their ability to work cooperatively–have governed billions of people for a combined 5,000 years and their publicly available stats are jaw-dropping. Most have a PhD and an IQ over 140. Americans have little trust in their government and Gallup says 20 percent of them rank government as their most pressing problem and only 54 percent ‘consistently express a pro-democratic position’. The Chinese government, by contrast, is the most trusted on earth:Innovation: In 1999, Samuel Huntington warned,Civilizations grow because they have an instrument of expansion, a military, religious, political, or economic organization that accumulates surplus and invests it in productive innovations and they decline when they stop the application of surplus to new ways of doing things. In modern terms we say that the rate of investment decreases. This happens because the social groups controlling the surplus have a vested interest in using it for non-productive but ego-satisfying purposes which distribute the surpluses to consumption but do not provide more effective methods of production. Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.The social groups controlling America’s surplus used it for non-productive, ego-satisfying purposes like wars, which distributed the surpluses to consumption but did not provide more effective methods of production. The the social group controlling China, the CCP, did the opposite:America failed to invest its surplus in productive innovations and China did. That’s why China is the world leader in 5G and most new technologies.China leads the world in basic research and in most technologies, especially hot areas. China has overtaken the US to become the world’s largest producer of scientific research papers, making up almost a fifth of the total global output, according to a major new report.China dominates a global ranking of the most-cited research papers published in the 30 hottest technology fields. Though the U.S. accounted for 3.9 million research papers overall compared with 2.9 million from China, the Asian country produced the largest share in 23 of the 30 fields that drew the most interest.According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency, China now ranks as the most influential country in four of eight core scientific fields and is overtaking America in the other four.The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) examined not just the number of AI research papers coming from China but the quality of those papers—as judged by the number of citations they receive in other work. China will overtake the US in the most-cited 50% of research papers this year, the top 10% of research papers in 2020, and the top 1% by 2025. China is already ahead in the number of AI patents filed, AI venture capital invested, and research papers cited worldwide. The number of Chinese students studying AI and graduating from universities worldwide exceed the total number of other countries’ AI students combinedTAn Overview of Scientific and Scholarly Publishing says China has overtaken the US to become the world’s largest producer of scientific research papers, making up a fifth of the total global output,The World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, ranked 167 universities and public research universities for the top 500 patent applications. 110 of the patents were from China, 20 from the United States and 19 from South Korea. China also dominates a global ranking of the most-cited research papers published in the 30 hottest technology fields.Finances: Since its economy is growing three times faster and all its debt is domestic, China’s debt burden is one-third of America’s, while the Financial Times says, “America will need to sell $12 Trillion of bonds in the coming decade..Who on earth–or in global finance–will buy this looming mountain of Treasuries, the US borrowing requirement even before Trump’s major upgrade of America’s weapons systems? ..These borrowing needs will all have to be financed in the context of already high global dollar debt exposure. One of America’s biggest hedge funds privately concluded that in five years’ time the Treasury will need to sell bonds equivalent to 25 per cent of gross domestic product, up from 15 per cent now. This level of debt has occurred just twice in the past 120 years, first during the second world war and then again during the 2008 financial crisis.”Infrastructure: New, automated highways, railways, airports, subways and ports and, next year, the world’s fastest, most advanced Internet and an entire city built around 5G.Inequality: Much of China’s GINI (inequality) gap is structural: their inland, rural populations have always been poorer than their urban, coastal cousins and, because the country couldn’t afford to build homes or cities fast enough, inlanders were held in place by residential hukous. But this aspect of inequality has been exaggerated because the cost of living in wealthy areas like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen is much greater because urban land prices–though not housing quality–are vastly higher. If we include the full range of goods and services whose price differ across areas (in rural areas basic foods cost half of Beijing’s), incomes from most rural areas should be increased by fifty percent to make them comparable.If we adjust for where people actually live, the difference shrinks even further. Until recently, demographers counted people’s hukous–where they were registered to live rather than where they actually lived–but migrant workers’ numbers rose to three hundred million in 2018, distorting the comparisons. In real life, the coastal provinces have millions more residents than their registered populations and the reverse holds for migrant-sending inland provinces so, as each person moved from China’s interior to the coast, measures of inequality rose because the migrant contributed to income in the coastal destination but was still counted as living in the origin, interior, area. Once this counting error was corrected, regional inequality in China was found to have declined at an average trend rate of 1.1 percent per year from 1978 to 2016. [Spatial Price Differences and Inequality in the People's Republic of China: Housing Market Evidence,” Asian Development Review, MIT Press].In 2018 President Xi announced that the country will spend 2021-2035 bringing both income and wealth levels closer to Finland’s, the world’s most equitable country.Hunger: There are more hungry people in America than in China:Influence: Gallup says that, despite America’s domination of world media, 34% of the world approves of China’s leadership compared to America’s 31% adding, “As the global balance of soft power continues to shift, it may prove even more difficult for the US to counter this influence”. China generates 20% of global GDP vs. America’s 15%, its imports and exports are in balance, its trading relationships are excellent, its currency fairly valued, its economy one third larger and growing three times faster, its manufacturing wages have reached parity with the US.Trade: China’s most significant trade relationships are Asia and Europe, with the US third. As Parag Khanna says, “Asia’s decoupling reflects the fact that America does not need the rest of the world for its survival. In geopolitics, that is a blessed condition but in geoeconomics it means the US is actually much more dispensible than it thinks. Indeed, China’s most significant trade relationships are first and foremost other Asians, followed by Europe, with the US third most important. From China’s standpoint, number three just launched a trade war against number one. It has taken one short generation for Asia to launch its decoupling from the US—and the coming generation will witness even more couplings among Asians themselves. “America first” sounds like a great idea, except when it actually means, “America alone.”Science and Technology. According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency, China is the most influential country in four of eight core scientific fields, tying with the U.S. The agency took the top 10% of the most referenced studies in each field, and determined the number of authors who were affiliated with the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, China or Japan. China ranked first in computer science, mathematics, materials science and engineering and is rapidly catching up in physics. The U.S. led in physics, environmental and earth sciences, basic life science and clinical medicine.China leads the world in most of the top 10 fields (and in each of the five areas in the top 10 tied to battery research). It accounted for more than 70% of all papers on photocatalysts and nucleic-acid-targeted cancer treatment, which ranked 12th and 14th. The U.S. led in three biotechnology fields, including No. 7 genome editing and No. 10 immunotherapy.China leads in all fields of civil engineering and of sustainable and renewable energy, in manufacturing, supercomputing, speech recognition, graphenics, thorium power, pebble bed reactors, genomics, thermal power, ASW missiles, drones, in-orbit satellite refueling, passive array radar, metamaterials, hyperspectral imaging, nanotechnology, UHV electricity transmission, HSR, speech recognition, radiotelescopy, hypersonic weapons, satellite quantum communications, quantum secure direct communications and quantum controls. “Approximately 72% of the academic patent families published in QIT since 2012 have been from Chinese universities. US universities are a distant second with 12%.” Patintformatics.: No country has so many intelligent, well trained, devoted engineers. China leads the world inquantum encrypted communications,5G telecommunications,CCTV and face recognition–which the NYPD usesSpace: China launched more space missions in 2018 than Russia.China is the world’s leading provider of UAVs and the largest manufacturer and exporter of light combat aircraft. Once it gets is WS-15 engine right it will be America’s equal in fighter technology.Ocean engineering equipment and hi-tech ships. China is the go-to builder for ships like LNG transporters and naval vessels that require technical expertise (the USN even approached it about building a floating dock) It designs, builds and operates the most powerful surface combatants afloat, the Type 55 cruiser.China leads in all aspects of railway engineering and wins the bulk of global rail contracts. The first of five low speed maglev lines has completed testing and two more will open this year.Energy-saving and new energy vehicles: China leads the world in batteries and electric cars and has more than 20 manufacturers innovating to survive.Power equipment: China leads the world in basic research and manufacturing of all renewable energy sources and nuclear energy and it installed more renewable and nuclear power last year than the rest of the world combined. It dominates the market for long distance UHV transmission.New materials like graphene and nanomaterials. China's share of the most cited nanoscience papers grows 22% annually and overtook the US in 2014. Its contribution–in quantity and quality–is now greater than the rest of the world’s combined. Most of the world’s graphene is manufactured, and most graphene startups are in China and the country is even with the US in nanomaterial development.Market Size: There are twice as many people in China than in the US and Europe combined and domestic consumption of China is growing 7% annually as 200 million rural people move into new cities. China will have abundant low salary workers in its western provinces for the next 15 years.Business flexibility: Chinese companies are flexible beyond imagination. They can change products, management, focus, or whatever, literally overnight. The Chinese are incredibly flexible and their culture has already outlived the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans. Western companies are hierarchically organised whereas in Chinese companies decisions are made fast, often on the phone.Thrift: Chinese companies and families have three trillion dollars in their savings accounts and 80% of homes have no mortgages. The country has no external debt and investment money is easy to find.Democracy. China is the world’s leading democracy. Electively, popularly, procedurally, operationally, substantively, financially, technologically, China is a democracy and America is not.Geography. China and its partner, Russia, dominate Eurasia morally, economically, geographically, technologically and militarily. Between them China and Russia have the world’s largest reserves of natural resources. China remains self-sufficient in food and Russia literally has more arable land than it knows what to do with. As Zbigniew Brzezinski warned, “A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions… control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania (Australia) geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent. 75 percent of the world’s people live in Eurasia and most of the world’s physical wealth is there too, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources.” [The Grand Chessboard].Economic Development and Industrial Capacity. China has twice America’s industrial capacity and its factories are half the age of American factories.Home Ownership: One of the most important social stabilizers is home ownership and China is the world leader in this area:Military Preparedness. Chinese missiles outrange American missiles–usually by 100%–in every category, from A2A to ICBMs. Tough its military spending consumes half America’s discretionary budget, it is losing five wars, has lost the Black Sea and the Middle East and is close to losing the entire Eurasian continent. The bills for those wars are coming due. And, as Winston Churchill put it, “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” The PLA on the verge of fielding some of the most modern weapon systems in the world. In some areas, it already leads the world–at half the cost of America’s defense budget. By 2025, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will have 4 aircraft carriers, 3 Type 075 landing helicopter docks, each carrying 30 attack helicopters, and 10 Type 071 amphibious transport docks, 16 Type 055 guided missile cruisers, 18 Type 052D guided missile destroyers, 6 Type 052C air defence destroyers, 4 Type 052B multirole missile destroyers, 32 Type 054A multi-role frigates, 6 Type 054B multi-role frigates and 80 Type 056/56A corvettes as well as 6 Type 901 fast combat support ships and 12 Type 903 replenishment ships. The underwater fleet will include 11 Type 039 diesel-electric attack submarines, 12 Type 039 AIP diesel-electric attack submarines, 21 Type 093 nuclear-powered attack submarines, 8 Type 094 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, 10 Type 095 nuclear-powered attack submarines and 6 Type 096 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.Ideology. The US has no coherent ideology while China’s Confucian ideology is 2,500 years old. China’s elite, the ninety-million members of the Communist Party, have sworn to ‘bear the people’s hardships first and enjoy its fruits last’.Diplomacy. Without threats or coercion, China has created the SCO, the largest security alliance on earth; the AIIB, the largest international finance agency; the BRI, an ambitious trading program with 130 member nations; and the upcoming RCEP will dwarf all trading alliances. The majority of Germans want to distance themselves from the United States and nearly half of then consider China to be a more reliable partner for Germany than the US. Our media’s efforts to diminish China’s soft power are failing, as Europe’s decision to retain Huawei indicates.The Future. The Chinese have a strong belief in the future and willingly sacrifice time and effort for the next generation. The Chinese are feeling as America did in the 60s, and their wages and wealth have doubled every decade for seventy years. By 2025, nine Chinese provinces will enjoy higher average incomes than average Americans.By 2035 China’s manufacturing will reach ‘an intermediate level among world manufacturing powers,’ with greatly improved ability to make key breakthroughs and ‘significantly increase overall competitiveness.’ By 2049 China expects to ‘lead the world’s manufacturing powers, with the capability to lead innovation and possess competitive advantages in major manufacturing areas, and will develop advanced technology and industrial systems.”Kishore Mahbubani, former President of the UN Security Council, says, “The key question the West must ask is: how was the relative over-performance of Western societies in the second half of the 20th century replaced by underperformance in the 21st century? The answer will not come from looking at China. It will come from looking in the mirror."The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of the world. –Lee Kwan Yew.[1] Lesser Prosperity.

They ruin the view. Totally. And they look so silly beside those beautiful clean coal plants.Remember,Any form of energy which NOT comes from a privileged, predominantly white and male perspective whose economic identity is intimately intertwined with the most egregious form of predatory capitalism and prosperous circumstances built on the backs of colonialism, slavery and white supremacy, and who believes that this prosperity was not only normal, but legitimately earned,like fossil fuelsis not real energy.Any form of energy which does NOT use a business model based on exploiting the world's natural resources and dumping poison and waste back into nature and polluting innocent people -in the name of greed,and is NOT accusing everyone else for being "the bad guys" or being "in it for the money"?is not a real form of energy.Any new form of energy which is not making the robber barons and the corporate polluters richer, is not a true form for energi.And do you remember that bad bad disaster?Nah, just kiddin. I was just giving you the info like I was a wingnut fossil fuel propaganda posing as a “newspaper” to cater the tribe of billionaire worshipper sheeples.You know,Billionaire worshipers seek out bullshit groups where billionaires “create jobs” and are “always right” and are “saving America” and "the poor",while in reality billionaires are just indulging in their own gluttony, greed and selfishness - without paying any taxes.REALITY CHECK.COAL IS DEAD:It’S BEEN FREE FALLING FOR 100 YEARS.Or as deniers would say; because of Obama.Trump's pledge to save US coal is failing, leaving coal country in crisisThe Other Reason to Shift away from Coal: Air Pollution That Kills Thousands Every YearTHE GOOD NEWS:US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industryUnsubsidised wind and solar now cheapest form of bulk energyGlobal green economy could create 24 million jobs by 2030CHEAPER ENERGY:Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than EverThe cost of renewable energy has tumbled even further over the past year, to the point where almost every source of green energy can now compete on cost with oil, coal and gas-fired power plants, according to new data released today.Hydroelectric power is the cheapest source of renewable energy, at an average of $0.05 per kilowatt hour (kWh), but the average cost of developing new power plants based on onshore wind, solar photovoltaic (PV), biomass or geothermal energy is now usually below $0.10/kWh. Not far behind that is offshore wind, which costs close to $0.13/kWh.Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than EverEIA forecasts renewables will be fastest growing source of electricity generationThe unsubsidised cost of wind and solar now beats coal as the cheapest form of bulk generation in all major economies except Japan, according to the latest levellised cost of electricity analysis by leading energy analyst BloombergNEF.The latest report says the biggest news comes in the two fastest growing energy markets, China and India, where it notes that “not so long ago coal was king”. Not any more.“In India, best-in-class solar and wind plants are now half the cost of new coal plants,” the report says, and this is despite the recent imposition of import tariffs on solar cells and modules.Unsubsidised wind and solar now cheapest form of bulk energyA harsh new reality is undermining the U.S. coal-fired electricity sector: Cleaner generation by way of utility-scale solar backed with storage is an increasingly cheaper option for utility companies than continuing to operate aging coal plants.IEEFA U.S.: Solar-plus-storage is undermining the economics of existing coal-fired generation - Institute for Energy Economics & Financial AnalysisRenewable energy will be cheaper than fossil fuels by 2020 - The PenIt's now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant runningRENEWABLE ENERGY: U.S. readies first wind-powered steel plantThe global transition to clean energy, explained in 12 chartsOUR FUTURE ENERGY SYSTEM: THE SMART GRIDWHAT IS A SMART GRID?“A smart grid is a system that can connect (and switch between) a number of energy sources (solar, wind, etc.), at many different sites, to provide a constant flow of electricity to users. It allows us to create a network of electricity production sites that spread over a wide area. So for example, it would allow you to create solar power on the roof of your house, and feed extra power back into the grid. This is part of what makes the grid “smart”: components can “talk” and “listen” to each other, making the supply of electricity much more flexible, reliable, and efficient. With smart grid solutions, we are no longer just passive consumers of energy, but active producers and consumers of clean energy – prosumers!An electricity grid – the system that connects power stations to consumers – can handle large shares of variable renewable energy if it is designed to do so. Adding wind and solar on top of ‘business as usual’ is not how it works. What’s needed is a gradual transformation of the whole energy system to accommodate modern energy production and consumption.Typically the ones who claim that wind and solar will bring trouble to the gridare the old players, who failed to take renewable energy seriously and over-invested in fossil fuel capacities instead. Renewable energy is now eating their profits and making their old business models out-of-date. SourceIn reality, Europe, for example, can switch to 77% renewable electricity by 2030 while maintaining affordable security of supply.” SourceHow three battery types work in grid energy storage systemsWhat is the Smart Grid?

More innovation?There is so much happening right now..where do I start?https://www.tu.no/artikler/danmark-har-gatt-fra-14-kullkraftverk-til-6200-vindmoller-elnettet-fungerer-fortsatt/452258The economic revolution has started. Its personal, corporate, local and global all at once:And most important; The youth , the future of the planet, is aware, awaken and alerted. It’s their future, it’s their right. They care for each other, they care for the world.Greta Thunberg!She is like a bright light. A voice of reason in a time when greed and overconsumption seems to be the default.Greta Thunberg's words speak to larger truths about humanity'Biggest compliment yet': Greta Thunberg welcomes oil chief's 'greatest threat' labelMore on Gretas great movement:Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to What do you think about Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old climate activist? Is she a person to admire?Latest:Renewable Energy Now Accounts For A Third Of All Global Power CapacityNearly 200 nations of the world have signed an agreement to actually reduce emissions and more:Paris Agreement: essential elementsThe Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so. As such, it charts a new course in the global climate effort.The Paris AgreementIf the world meets the objectives of the Paris Agreement, it will cause one million lives to be spared only through less air pollution until 2050. It is one of the findings in a report that World Health Organization presented on climate summit in Poland Wednesday.Health benefits far outweigh the costs of meeting climate change goalshttps://apps.who.int/iris/bitstr...Global warming is the biggest global non partisan issue humanity have faced since the threats of World War 3.It can only be solved with global actions. Does it work?Yes. Like this:Because of global actions we see restoration of ecosystems damaged by acid rain worldwide and we are also about to recover the ozone layer as well.“The acid rain problem in Europe and North America has largely abated because of stronger SO2 and NOx emission controls, such as the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1970, the Canada–United States Air Quality Agreement in 1991, and similar measures in Europe. In the United States the first phase of emission reductions took effect in 1995, and subsequent reductions followed”.What Happened to Acid Rain?"The ongoing recovery of Earth's "ozone hole" is a great example of what humans can do when they work together to solve a global atmospheric problem. We look at the key role one NASA mission has played in this success story."The Atmosphere: Tracking the Ongoing Recovery of Earth's Ozone Hole – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetAfter Decades Of Global Action, The Ozone Layer Is On The Road To RecoveryAfter Decades Of Global Action, The Ozone Layer Is On The Road To RecoveryIt's been 32 years since the world pledged to fix the ozone layer. And it workedAnd probably to the shock of all climate deniers out there; It was done without the installment of a global socialist illuminati dictatorship out to turn the world into a huge wind park.In a rare — and much-needed — environmental win, a UN report says parts of the ozone layer could be fully healed by the 2030s.Ozone at lower latitudes is not recovering, despite Antarctic ozone hole healingMORE JOBS:US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industryGlobal green economy could create 24 million jobs by 2030A new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) reveals that solar jobs in the US (and other nations) are expanding quickly. As of November 2016, the American solar industry employed 260,077 workers. This is an increase of 24.5 percent from 2015, with a growth rate that is 17 times fasterthan the United States economy as a whole.NextEra Now More Valuable Than Exxon as Clean Power Eclipses OilJust 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition'Ending fossil fuel subsidies has long been seen as vital to tackling the climate emergency, with the G20 nations pledging in 2009 to phase them out, but progress has been limited. In May, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, attacked subsidies, saying: “What we are doing is using taxpayers’ money – which means our money – to boost hurricanes, to spread droughts, to melt glaciers, to bleach corals. In one word: to destroy the world.”CHEAPER ENERGY:Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than EverThe cost of renewable energy has tumbled even further over the past year, to the point where almost every source of green energy can now compete on cost with oil, coal and gas-fired power plants, according to new data released today.Hydroelectric power is the cheapest source of renewable energy, at an average of $0.05 per kilowatt hour (kWh), but the average cost of developing new power plants based on onshore wind, solar photovoltaic (PV), biomass or geothermal energy is now usually below $0.10/kWh. Not far behind that is offshore wind, which costs close to $0.13/kWh.Smarte materialer kan gi grønn energiboomRenewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than EverEIA forecasts renewables will be fastest growing source of electricity generationThe unsubsidised cost of wind and solar now beats coal as the cheapest form of bulk generation in all major economies except Japan, according to the latest levellised cost of electricity analysis by leading energy analyst BloombergNEF.The latest report says the biggest news comes in the two fastest growing energy markets, China and India, where it notes that “not so long ago coal was king”. Not any more.“In India, best-in-class solar and wind plants are now half the cost of new coal plants,” the report says, and this is despite the recent imposition of import tariffs on solar cells and modules.Unsubsidised wind and solar now cheapest form of bulk energyA harsh new reality is undermining the U.S. coal-fired electricity sector: Cleaner generation by way of utility-scale solar backed with storage is an increasingly cheaper option for utility companies than continuing to operate aging coal plants.IEEFA U.S.: Solar-plus-storage is undermining the economics of existing coal-fired generation - Institute for Energy Economics & Financial AnalysisUnsubsidised wind and solar now cheapest form of bulk energyWorld’s Largest Solar Project Will Also Be Its CheapestRenewable energy will be cheaper than fossil fuels by 2020 - The PenIt's now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant runningThe global transition to clean energy, explained in 12 chartsTHE END OF PETROLEUM IS GETTING CLOSER:BIOFUELS IS COMING SUPER FAST:Norway sees the biggest investment for Blue Crude yet.Eighteen countries from developed economies have had declining carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels for at least a decade. While every nation is unique, they share some common themes that can show Australia, and the world, a viable path to reducing emissions.One could argue this decline is not particularly meaningful because global fossil fuel emissions continued to grow at 2.2% per year during the same period. However, this group of countries is responsible for 28% of the global CO₂ emissions from fossil fuelsEighteen countries showing the way to carbon zeroMore and more countries are preparing for the end of the Petroleum Age:The Powering Past Coal Alliance is a coalition of national and sub-national governments, businesses and organisations working to advance the transition from unabated coal power generation to clean energy.Powering Past Coal Alliance | Working towards the global phase-out of unabated coal powerSix new Powering Past Coal Alliance members announced at COP24 | Powering Past Coal AllianceClimate deniers in the year 1900:-”What do you mean giving up my horse and cart for this ugly gasolin driven black box on wheels? How am I going to cross the desert in this? There are no gasolin stations in the desert!!! And hardly any roads. My horse dont need roads nor gasolin.”Israel: Israel to stop electricity production from coal by 2030Angela Merkel’s government agreed to support a $60 billion package of climate policies aimed at getting Germany back on track to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Critics say the package "lacks courage" and doesn't go far enough.Germany Unveils $60 Billion Climate PackageGermany - Germany Closes Its Last Black Coal MineGermany Closes Its Last Active Coal Mine, Ending 200-year-old IndustryGermany agrees to end reliance on coal stations by 2038German states want to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2030Renewables overtake coal as Germany's main energy source60% av tysk kraftproduksjon i februar 2020 var fornybar. Brunkull er helt på vei ut, svartkull følger etter. Fornybar er fremtiden.Nettostromerzeugung im Februar zu mehr als 60 Prozent erneuerbar – Braunkohle erreicht TiefststandFornybarrekord i Tyskland: Kullbruken faller kraftigGermany has unveiled a zero-emissions train that only emits waterFrance - France to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040Europe steams towards coal exit - researchMore Offshore Wind For FranceAustralia: Australia’s main grid hits new peak of 41 per cent wind and solarAustralia’s capital city switches to 100% renewable energySouth Australia could reach stunning 87 per cent wind and solar in four yearsCosta Rica Becomes the First Nation to Ban Fossil Fuels - MediumThe Netherlands: Amsterdam to ban petrol and diesel cars and motorbikes by 2030The UK - UK commits to 'net zero' emissions by 2050The UK - Wants production of petrol and diesel cars to end by 2040The UK: Why the City of London is considering a non-electric car banFinland - Finland pledges to become carbon neutral by 2035Norway: Departementet godkjenner utbyggingen av Hywind TampenEquinor, SSE win British contract for largest offshore wind projectNorway - Electric car sales grew by 40% in Norway this yearTesla Model 3 pushes Norway’s EV sales to new record: 58% of new cars are electricNorway is the leading market for electric vehicles and it keeps showing the rest of the world how fast electric vehicle adoption can happen.In 2018, EV sales grew by 40% in Norway and 1 out of 3 vehicles sold in the market was a zero-emission vehicle.Electric cars may already be making gas cars as obsolete as ‘flip phones’, experts sayBuying a gas car today would leave you with a financial "albatross" that has little resale value, warns Wall Street Journal.These companies are leading the fight against climate changePlunging prices for batteries and renewables are driving an electric vehicle (EV) revolution so rapidly that the economics of oil “are now in relentless and irreversible decline.”That’s the startling conclusion of a detailed new analysis for “professional investors” of the economics of EVs versus gasoline cars produced by BNP Paribas, the world’s eighth largest bank by total assets.One of the world’s largest banks thinks the writing is on the wall for the oil industrySalesforce Leads 21 Companies With Plan to Fight Climate Change Through TechnologyWith government on the sidelines, businesses address climate changeCorporations Are Stepping in to Combat Climate Change | JPMorgan Chase & Co.Google to Invest $2 Billion in Wind and Solar EnergyAnalysis: India’s CO2 emissions growth poised to slow sharply in 2019China and India Emerge as Leaders on Climate ChangeWhen China agreed to sign on to the Paris accord, it was not only hailed as a breakthrough in policy coordination, but as a sign that China was getting serious about the enormous size of its carbon footprint and was ready to commit to protecting against the effects of climate change.China and India Emerge as Leaders on Climate Change | The Takeaway | WNYCOne of India’s largest coal-mining states says it will not build new coal power plantsChina Built The World's Biggest Air Purifying Tower And It Works!Bad news for coal: India lands world’s largest, super cheap solar and storage tenderSlik får Kina fart i sol- og vindkraftChina and India are doing a lot to go green:11 countries leading the charge on renewable energy - Climate CouncilThe U.S. Has a Fleet of 300 Electric Buses. China Has 421,000The U.S. Has a Fleet of 300 Electric Buses. China Has 421,000The nine biggest solar power plants in the worldWhy China, and not the US, is the leader in solar powerHow China's giant solar farms are transforming world energyThe Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Batteries | Bloomberg NEFChina builds world's biggest solar farm in journey to become green superpower #GlobalWarningChina Just Exceeded its 2020 Target for Solar InstallationsChina - Beijing’s plan to stop producing petrol and diesel carsChina Meets 2020 Carbon Target Three Years Ahead of ScheduleWind & Solar In China Generating 2× Nuclear Today, Will Be 4× By 2030China pledges to strengthen climate planFull speed ahead for China’s high-speed rail network in 2019Electric Buses Put The Big Hurt On Fossil Fuel CompaniesChina buys one out of every two electric vehicles sold globally6 of 10 Big Electric Car Companies Are in ChinaE-Bikes Already At $1.5 Billion Annual Revenue & Being Fought For GloballyChina’s emissions ‘could peak 10 years earlier than Paris climate pledge’China’s State Grid Envisions Global Wind-and-Sun Power NetworkCan China pick up US slack on climate change?India - India to sell only electric cars by 2030India just cancelled 14 huge coal-fired power stations as solar energy prices hit record lowOne of India’s largest coal-mining states says it will not build new coal power plantsThe Carbon Brief Profile: IndiaUSA: - US on pace for record coal retirements in 2018, IEEFA findsRENEWABLE ENERGY: U.S. readies first wind-powered steel plantUSA: A major U.S. electric utility has finally realized climate change is realityAUSTRALIA: Landmark Australian ruling rejects coal mine over global warmingAustralia Leads Global Renewable Energy RevolutionAustralia could hit 100% renewables sooner than most people think | Nicky IsonThe Netherlands - Confirms plan to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2030Influencers, Articles and ConversationsMIT's conceptual "sun-in-a-box" energy storage system plugs into molten siliconGoing green is getting cheaper and cheaper:Renewable Energy Now Accounts For A Third Of All Global Power CapacitySouth Korea to implement Green New Deal after ruling party election winSolar and wind power cheaper than fossil fuels for the first timeSomething revolutionary has just happened to solar power, and it could change everythingRenewable energy will be cheaper than fossil fuels by 2020 - The PenThis is how coal dies — super cheap renewables (This is how coal dies — super cheap renewables plus battery storage) plus battery storagehttps://www.climaterealityproject.org/sites/climaterealityproject.org/files/Solar_Myths_Updated.pdfAging coal, natural gas and nuclear sites closing as nation shifts to wind, solarAnd Now, the Really Big Coal Plants Begin to CloseIt's now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant runningHow Electric Cars and Renewables Could Beat Oil6 Myths About Renewable Energy, Busted! (6 Myths About Renewable Energy, Busted!)Many large car producers are already on the same track:This is Toyota's plan to stop making gas and diesel carsTesla & Rivals May Kill The Petrol Car As Early As 2025Tesla's Battery In South Australia Breaks Stranglehold Of Natural Gas IndustryYes, Electric Vehicles Work In Winter — Better Than Gas Cars!Even electric cars powered by the dirtiest electricity emit fewer emissions than diesel cars, says new study - ElectrekVOLVO WILL STOP PRODUCING GAS-ONLY CARS BY 2019Opec faces a mortal threat from electric carsAnd that’s just cars. Flying on Alternative Fuels.Why the age of electric flight is finally upon usThe Dutch Are Readying A Climate Tax On Flying, And The EU May FollowEven Lego is abandoning petroleum:Lego to stop producing petroleum-based plastic bricksMORE AND MORE OIL COMPANIES AGREES ON AGW AND WORKS TO REDUCE GAS EMISSIONS.Its over.Climate change skeptics have outlived their usefulness to the fossil fuel industry.Climate deniers are like those japanese soldiers who was unaware that the war had ended 60 years ago.GCI is a voluntary, CEO-led initiative which aims to lead the industry response to climate change. Launched in 2014, OGCI is currently made up of ten oil and gas companies that pool expert knowledge and collaborate on action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.http://oilandgasclimateinitiativ...BP:Renewable energy sources will be the world’s main source of power within two decades and are establishing a foothold in the global energy system faster than any fuel in history, according to BP.The UK-based oil company said wind, solar and other renewables will account for about 30% of the world’s electricity supplies by 2040, up from 25% in BP’s 2040 estimates last year, and about 10% today.In regions such as Europe, the figure will be as high as 50% by 2040. The speed of growth was without parallel, the company said in its annual energy outlook.Renewable energy will be world's main power source by 2040, says BPRenewable Energy Now Accounts For A Third Of All Global Power CapacityOUR FUTURE ENERGY SYSTEM: THE SMART GRIDWHAT IS A SMART GRID?“A smart grid is a system that can connect (and switch between) a number of energy sources (solar, wind, etc.), at many different sites, to provide a constant flow of electricity to users. It allows us to create a network of electricity production sites that spread over a wide area. So for example, it would allow you to create solar power on the roof of your house, and feed extra power back into the grid. This is part of what makes the grid “smart”: components can “talk” and “listen” to each other, making the supply of electricity much more flexible, reliable, and efficient. With smart grid solutions, we are no longer just passive consumers of energy, but active producers and consumers of clean energy – prosumers!An electricity grid – the system that connects power stations to consumers – can handle large shares of variable renewable energy if it is designed to do so. Adding wind and solar on top of ‘business as usual’ is not how it works. What’s needed is a gradual transformation of the whole energy system to accommodate modern energy production and consumption.Typically the ones who claim that wind and solar will bring trouble to the gridare the old players, who failed to take renewable energy seriously and over-invested in fossil fuel capacities instead. Renewable energy is now eating their profits and making their old business models out-of-date. SourceIn reality, Europe, for example, can switch to 77% renewable electricity by 2030 while maintaining affordable security of supply.” SourceHow three battery types work in grid energy storage systemsWhat is the Smart Grid?NEW TECHNOLOGY IS COMING SUPER FAST:Renewable energy materials are one of the hottest areas of scientific research today. We looked at four advanced materials that are supporting the future of distributed power and helping businesses meet the growing demand for clean energy.http://gereports.ca/four-cutting-edge-materials-shaping-future-renewables/#Google Maps Now Features EV Charging Stations #NewsQuickieThis is how coal dies — super cheap renewables plus battery storage.Look, no lithium! First rechargeable proton battery createdhttps://www.theguardian.com/tech..."Bird-Safe" Wind Turbines May Soon Take FlightUS Military Bases Using Solar, Wind, & Battery Storage For Energy SecurityFalling battery costs to push solar, wind to 50% electricity by 2050New battery could store wind and solar electricity affordably and at room temperatureWater-based battery stores solar and wind energy: What is now a prototype could one day lead to an industrial-grade system to store alternative energy to feed into the electric gridStudy shows how to improve production at wind farmsJapan Discovered a Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit This Year That Can Supply The World For CenturiesCheaper Battery Is Unveiled as a Step to a Carbon-Free Grid24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible, and Prices Are Falling FastStacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energyWhat Long Duration Energy Storage Is & Why It Kills CoalTesla's Battery In South Australia Breaks Stranglehold Of Natural Gas IndustryEven electric cars powered by the dirtiest electricity emit fewer emissions than diesel cars, says new study - ElectrekGoogle Maps Now Features EV Charging Stations #NewsQuickiehttps://www.elbil24.no/lading/vil-bygge-n-million-ladestasjoner/71931863?fbclid=IwAR3Qyv-bok6jym8xqOao7DTFxqjkAd25jcS16R1OvbcFSz2QN9GioD9G98Ahttps://www.elbil24.no/lading/vil-bygge-n-million-ladestasjoner/71931863?fbclid=IwAR3Qyv-bok6jym8xqOao7DTFxqjkAd25jcS16R1OvbcFSz2QN9GioD9G98AFive things you can do to fight climate change1. Eat less meat, particularly beef2. Consider your transportation3. Insulate homes4. Reduce, recycle, reuse5. VoteTen simple ways to act on climate changeFive things you can do to fight climate changeClimate change: focusing on how individuals can help is very convenient for corporations“Our only hope is to change the energy and transportation infrastructure of our society — for us to drive electric cars powered by clean energy sources like wind, solar, nuclear and hydropower. We must advocate for clean energy production at all levels — energy that doesn’t emit greenhouses gases — and especially vote in representatives who recognize the the threat of global warming and will do something about it at the state and national level.”David Appell's answer to What causes global warming to start? And how do we control it?Why should I sacrifice when big companies are to blame for climate change?The Five Stages of Climate OptimismIn recent years the costs of wind and solar energy have declined substantially. Today renewable technologies are the most economical solution for new capacity in a growing number of countries and regions, and are typically the most economic solution for new grid-connected capacity where good resources are available.• Citigroup: The age of renewable energy is beginning. Increasingly cost competitive with coal, gas and nuclear in the US. Source• HSBC: Wind energy is now cost competitive with new-build coal capacity in India. Solar to reach parity around 2016-18. Source• Deutsche Bank: solar now competitive without subsidies in at least 19 markets globally. In 2014 prices to decline further. Source• Unsubsidised renewable energy is now cheaper than electricity from new coal and gas fired power plants in Australia. SourceRENEWABLE ENERGY BENEFITS:1. reduction and ultimate elimination of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the energy sector;2. reductions in air and water pollution, water use and land degradation;3. reduction in respiratory diseases and cancers from pollution;4. energy security for as long as human civilization exists;5.a cap on energy costs, because most RE sources have no fuel costs;6.more local jobs, per unit of energy generated, than fossil or nuclear power;7. no risk of causing a nuclear war, or radioactive waste escape, or devastating accident.Why 100% renewable energy is feasible – INSURGE intelligence – MediumSaving the life of 600 000 children every year:WHO says air pollution kills 600,000 children every yearIf we are to reach the 2 C goal, emissions must begin to descend, and then sink rapidly for decades. That this will require a blend of renewable energy, efficiency, carbon capture and CO2 removal from the atmosphere, we can say without taking a strong political standpoint. But the concrete solutions become political. Do we choose to facilitate strong growth in solar power and a global carbon tax that will go beyond the fossil industry? Are we focusing on carbon capture and storage, which can extend the use of oil and gas? Do we have the capacity to do both, which will be even better for the climate, without going beyond the rest of society?Researchers should not take these choices. However, their job is to help understand the consequences of them. The challenge for the dissemination is that the debate debate moves beyond the research front.The scientific method is slow and thoughtful by nature. Are we supposed to say that we would like to have a few decades to consider every single measure? Or should we dare to guide, with the proviso that we speak out of the best of today's knowledge?In my opinion, our social responsibility requires us to do more of the last than we do today.THE BEST REASONS:No more oil spills:Top 10 LARGEST OIL SPILLS IN HISTORYCOAL IS DEAD IN THE WATER:Toxic air, water, soils and workplaces are responsible for the diseases that kill one in every six people around the world, the landmark report found, and the true total could be millions higher because the impact of many pollutants are poorly understood. The deaths attributed to pollution are triple those from Aids, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The vast majority of the pollution deaths occur in poorer nations and in some, such as India, Chad and Madagascar, pollution causes a quarter of all deaths. The international researchers said this burden is a hugely expensive drag on developing economies.https://thinkprogress.org/lamber...https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/04/20/oxford-university-passes-motion-banning-investment-in-fossil-fuels/Exxon's market value has crumbled by $184 billionJust 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study saysNearly half of world’s coal plants run at a loss, study findsThe Other Reason to Shift away from Coal: Air Pollution That Kills Thousands Every YearCoal Power Plants Face $7.3 Billion Losses in Europe in 2019How Britain ended its coal addictionJP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human raceAmerica's largest private coal miner files for bankruptcyEleven coal companies have filed for bankruptcy since Trump took officeShutdown of US coal power facilities saved over 26,000 lives, study findsTrump isn't saving coalTrump’s New Pollution Rules Still Won’t Save the Coal IndustryCoal Is Dead No Matter What Trump SaysThe coal miners themselves are going to solar and wind:“Coal is over. Forget coal,” said Jimmy Simpkins, who worked as a coalminer in the area for 29 years. “It can never be back to what it was in our heyday. It can’t happen. That coal is not there to mine.”“It’s a racket. Miners are being robbed every day,” said Bethel Brock, who was a coalminer for 32 years in Wise, Virginia. Between 1968 to 2014, an estimated 76,000 coalminers died of black lung disease. He fought coal companies for 14 years to secure his own black lung benefits after he was diagnosed.'Coal is over': the miners rooting for the Green New DealIn rural Colorado, the kids of coal miners learn to install solar panelsWyoming could lead US green energy push with wind power | DW | 24.01.2021Chevron Is Installing Solar Panels — To Produce Oil More CheaplySunnier times ahead for coal workers in renewables, tech | Powering Past Coal Alliance“There's never any debate about Einstein's theory of special relativity. They never question the revolution wrought by electronics. They revel in high-speed travel. And when it comes to health, they demand the latest and the very best.But with climate — or more specifically electricity generation — they blanch at the idea of moving much beyond 1776, the year James Watt improved Thomas Newcomen's steam engine.Setting fire to coal and boiling up a big pot of water so the steam can turn a machine is apparently the pinnacle of modern electricity generation and a point beyond which we shouldn't venture, regardless of cost.”Biden pauses onshore and offshore drilling leases, orders subsidy reviews (worldoil.com)The future of coal has already been decided in boardrooms around the globeGlobal fossil fuel subsidies totaled $544 billion in 2012, compared to only $101 billion for renewables. The International Monetary Fund estimates fossil fuel subsidies for 2015 to be $5.3 trillion - an amount equal to 6.5% of global GDP. More than 40% of this represents subsidies for coal, the most environmentally damaging of all fossil fuels. Although not good news on its face, the disproportionate funding for fossil fuels represents a tremendous opportunity to shift funding to renewable energy without an overall increase in costs.Global Subsidies - Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables — Environmental GraphitiGreen energy feels the heat as subsidies go to fossil fuelsHow Big Oil Clings to Billions in Government Giveawayshttps://www.motherjones.com/poli...Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per yearA new study finds 6.5% of global GDP goes to subsidizing dirty fossil fuelsThe International Monetary Fund estimates fossil fuel subsidies for 2015 to be $5.3 trillion - an amount equal to 6.5% of global GDP.https://www.theguardian.com/envi...https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc...Over the past century, the federal government has pumped more than $470 billion into the oil and gas industry in the form of generous, never-expiring tax breaks. Once intended to jump-start struggling domestic drillers, these incentives have become a tidy bonus for some of the world’s most profitable companies.Taxpayers currently subsidize the oil industry by as much as $4.8 billion a year, with about half of that going to the big five oil companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips—which get an average tax break of $3.34 on every barrel of domestic crude they produce. With Washington looking under the couch cushions for sources of new revenue, oil prices topping $100 a barrel, and the world feeling the heat from its dependence on fossil fuels, there’s been a renewed push to close these decades-old loopholes. But history suggests that Big Oil won’t let go of its perks without a brawl.https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc...A new paper published in Climatic Change estimates that when we account for the pollution costs associated with our energy sources, gasoline costs an extra $3.80 per gallon, diesel an additional $4.80 per gallon, coal a further 24 cents per kilowatt-hour, and natural gas another 11 cents per kilowatt-hour that we don’t see in our fuel or energy bills.https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-ene...The United States has spent more subsidizing fossil fuels in recent years than it has on defense spending, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund.The IMF found that direct and indirect subsidies for coal, oil and gas in the U.S. reached $649 billion in 2015. Pentagon spending that same year was $599 billion.Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon SpendingIMF Survey : Counting the Cost of Energy SubsidiesWhy are taxpayers subsidising the oil and gas companies that jeopardise our future?Instead of hoping market forces solve the climate crisis, the government needs to stop giving tax breaks to pollutersWhy are taxpayers subsidising the oil and gas companies that jeopardise our future? | Clive LewisThe economic costs of air pollution from fossil fuels are estimated at US$2.9 trillion in 2018, or 3.3% of global GDP, far exceeding the likely costs of rapid reductions in fossil fuel use. An estimated 4.5 million people died in 2018 due to exposure to air pollution from fossil fuels. On average, each death was associated with a loss of 19 years of life. ● Fossil fuel PM2.5 pollution was responsible for 1.8 billion days of work absence, 4 million new cases of child asthma and 2 million preterm births, among other health impacts that affect healthcare costs, economic productivity and welfare.De økonomiske kostnadene ved luftforurensning fra fossile brensler anslås til 2,9 billion dollar i 2018, eller 3,3% av verdens BNP, som langt overstiger de sannsynlige kostnadene for raske reduksjoner i fossilt brensel bruk.● Anslagsvis 4,5 millioner mennesker døde i 2018 på grunn av eksponering for luftforurensning fra fossil brensel. I gjennomsnitt var hvert dødsfall assosiert med et tap på 19 år i livet.● Forurensning av fossilt brensel PM2.5 var ansvarlig for 1,8 milliarder dager fravær, 4 millioner nye tilfeller av barneastma og 2 millioner for tidlige fødsler, blant andre helsemessige påvirkninger av helsetjenester, økonomisk produktivitet og velferd.https://energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cost-of-fossil-fuels-briefing.pdfUnited States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than EducationThe fossil fuel lobby has actively worked in many countries to protect their subsidies and avoid the imposition of carbon taxes. Doing so protects their profits.US spent on these subsidies in 2015 is more than the country’s defense budget and 10 times the federal spending for educationUnited States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than EducationNo wonder then:Trump Administration Rebrands Fossil Fuels As "Molecules Of U.S. FreedomWe want a cleaner world and the end of all the socialist subsidies for oil and coal:Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to How can we combat climate change?Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to How will we ever truly battle global warming when going green is only afforded by the wealthy?BONUS:What simple truths in your opinion Liberals "get" that Republicans simply don't seem to understand?In no particular order:“Voluntary charity” doesn’t work. We’ve tried it in the past — it’s like trying to fight a forest fire with a water gun that only works when it wants to, not when you need it to.The existence of public social safety nets is a win-win-win for the poor, middle class, and the rich. The cost in taxpayer dollars is more than offset by the benefits.Tax cuts are only beneficial when taxes are absurdly high. The US is far, far beyond the point where further tax cuts will benefit the country.Taxing the extremely wealthy at higher rates than the rest of the country is morally justified and pragmatically desirable.What’s good for corporate profit margins isn’t necessarily good for the country as a whole. There are other priorities which need to come first.Building on #5, protecting the environment is both a moral imperative and an economic benefit. Our natural environment is an enormous source of health and wealth. Keeping it safe and healthy at all costs is infinitely more important than keeping the oil and gas industries profitable.Building on #5, what’s good for stakeholders and business owners isn’t necessarily good for workers or consumers. The interests of all of these parties need to be factored into economic policy.Politics is about compromise and tradeoffs. No one can have everything they want.“Free” markets are more of an ideal than a reality. Real-world markets have all sorts of inherent imperfections and imbalances which necessitate government intervention.Government regulation of businesses is not axiomatically bad. Some businesses don’t like it, but that’s not important.If you can’t take it, you shouldn’t be dishing it out. You can’t spend 30+ years whining about how “political correctness” is “stifling” you, and then get your knickerbockers in a bunch when liberals/Democrats/progressives insult you in return.Words matter. They can inspire people to heroism or incite them to violence. Politically-motivated violence doesn’t happen overnight. It’s normalized, slowly, word by word and mindset by mindset. The politically-motivated violence we have seen recently in this country didn’t come from nowhere — it is the culmination of a President and a GOP which has been verbally assaulting political opponents and pushing already-unhinged followers over the edge. Certain forms of rhetoric send subtle signals to neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, and white supremacists that the time has come to act.The Republican Party of Trump is not “conservative.” The only true conservatives in your community have denounced your party.Christopher Anderson's answer to What simple truths in your opinion Liberals "get" that Republicans simply don't seem to understand?