Dave Roberts | Is Climate Change an Existential Threat? Ep.88
One barrel of oil equals the manual labor energy of one human for five years. This fact explains why humans are strapped to fossil fuels: entire economies and lifestyles are based on the easy availability of fossil fuels. Humans don’t yet know how to live off of the Earth’s “energy budget” – fueled by the sun.
We’re emitting more CO2 than at any time before. What is the barrier to slowing this down? Politics, and the difficulty humans have with change. But change is afoot and hope is alive.
David Roberts is editor-at-large at Canary Media. He writes about clean energy and politics at his…
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