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Goodbye, oil. Farewell, natural gas. So long and don’t bother to write, coal. The world is increasingly patting fossil fuels on the back, then sending them off to the great sooty place in the sky.
As humans face up to the catastrophic consequences of climate change, people have finally woken up to the desperate need to banish these dangerous energy sources in favour of renewable energy.
So far, 185 countries have signed the 2016 Paris Agreement, and the results have been clear. Governments all over the world have taken more and more actions to cut their fossil fuel usage to meet (or even exceed) the treaty’s requirements. One consequence is that one third of global power capacity is now based on renewable energy, according to a report in April 2019 from the International Renewable Energy Agency – and that’s only the start.
France, Britain, and Germany (among others) have committed to getting rid of all their coal-fired plants by 2021, 2025, and 2038 respectively. An article in The...
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