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Comment on US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace

These graphs is not how it works, progress (in China and other sane-ish parts of the world) will probably speed up in the near future and then slow down as we run out of low-hanging fruit. You can’t project the behavior of extremely complex systems like this. See also:

xkcd “Sustainable”

But yeah in general US is clearly getting left behind on things that will matter this century. Hopefully it won’t manage to drag the rest of us down with them.

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eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

But yeah in general US is clearly getting left behind on things that will matter this century. Hopefully it won’t manage to drag the rest of us down with them.

the US is not getting left behind, it’s intentionally staying behind because the ruling class believes it’ll weaken their grasp; it’s disappeared from the political discussion of the last decade or so because of that and very few seem to notice.

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- balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I meant it more as a statement of fact, “most of the world is leaving the US behind”. You are 100% correct on the “why”.
  
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  - eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    it seems more like the US is leaving others behind due to the expected future realities of a climate-change-degraded/multi-polar-order world and only the global north has the luxury of “leaving”
    
    a huge majority didn’t willing enter an agreement and we’re witnessing in venezula, bolivia, chile, colombia, nigera, sudan, nepal, etc. what happens when they try to leave the US behind.
    
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MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
A lot of countries are already quite far along. Norway, DRC, Uruguay, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Albania and a bunch of others are doing much better then China or the US. If you include nuclear also France and Sweden go pretty far. Also Brazil is at nearly 90%.

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- balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  How do they compare with China in terms of energy use per capita? China is the world’s factory, this level of industrial output requires a lot of energy.
  
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  - MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It depends. France is on a similar level to China, but much cleaner, Sweden and Norway are well above China. The other use much less. It is complex for sure. Especially when you consider efficiency as well.
    
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billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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