Is This The Year Of Peak Energy Emissions?

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• iii@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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 question

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, they really don’t, do they? That’s a bit sloppy.

    The article they link goes into a bit more detail, though: weforum.org/…/peak-energy-emissions-a-historic-mo…

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’ll be worse in a few years when president poopstain starts ww3

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