> fossil fuels NEED to stop yesterday
At the current rate it will stop in four to ten centuries.
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Yes at the current rate but if I drew a line at the 2006 rate of solar growth would it have anything to do with the rate now? How about 2016? I’m down about our prospects for limiting the damage but let’s not be irrationally doomer about it either.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...
And that is due to external actors, aka China, not the US and it's policies. We had the ability, technology, and desire to do what China is doing now back in 2006... But instead we made a housing bubble, then we dumped every investment dollar into silicon valley startups to make apps.
Physical limitations dictate it'll stop (being worth it economically to keep extracting) by like 2080 or 2090, but we'll be in way worse shape by then.
That said there has never been argument about whether we are on that trajectory, we want to be on that trajectory