Is This The Year Of Peak Energy Emissions?
Is This The Year Of Peak Energy Emissions?
How can real energy balance be achieved? What's the holdup on achieving net zero energy emissions, anyways?
Q: Why are energy-related emissions ready to decline for the first time since the Industrial Revolution?
A:Before the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840), emissions were very low. As the WEF explains, however, with the increased use of fossil fuels to power machines, emissions rose to 6 billion tons of CO₂ per year globally by 1950. The amount had almost quadrupled by 1990, reaching a rate of over 22 billion tons per year. Currently, the world emits over 34 billion tons of CO₂ each year. Since 1751, the world has emitted over 1.5 trillion tons of CO₂ cumulatively.
The answer presented in this article doesn't seem to address the related question
Huh, they really don't, do they? That's a bit sloppy.
The article they link goes into a bit more detail, though: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/peak-energy-emissions-a-historic-moment-overshadowed-by-the-endurance-of-fossil-fuels/
it'll be worse in a few years when president poopstain starts ww3