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{
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"HubID": "2791",
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"Date": "7/24/2023",
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"HubTags": [
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"Environment",
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"External Platform Posts",
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"Future Map Forward Guidance"
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],
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"Contacts": "",
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"Companies": "",
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"File": "",
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"Image": "2791__Image_URL.png",
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"Summary": "<p>This chart is fascinating but also really disturbing. </p>We have a long way to go to catchup to replace coal, oil and natural gas with renewables, against the backdrop of continued growing energy demand. I fear we will never be able to replace these carbon-based fuel sources because when you overlay the countries that have the right potential for solar and wind plus the countries that can afford the infrastructure for renewables, that list pares down fast to just a handful. Maybe we can get to a place where it is cheap and fast to install nuclear reactors that are much safer than current designs. Or, we are able to get to fusion energy quicker than currently projected. I think our hopes rest on these two energy sources. If not, global warming will continue and there is nothing we can do to stop it.<p><br /></p>\n<p>I fear that we will need to muddle through the next 50 years of global warming and climate change consequences until we have nuclear/fission that is widespread enough where we start to reduce dependency on carbon-based fuels in order to turn around our climate. </p><p>Can we survive another 50 years of global warming, which may include 2.5 or 3C? Some countries will muddle through like the US, but certainly not without consequences, but most others will not. We may have a rapid population decline as many people in other countries suffer from climate change that makes food insecure, warming that allows pandemics to breed and spread, rising sea levels that displaces people away from coastal areas, and war/competition for dwindling resources like food that get disrupted due to climate disasters. </p><p>I am not hopeful at present. We need to keep pushing on new technologies that might materialize which gives us a few silver bullets. </p>",
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"Notes": ""
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} |