Reply to Fthenakis et al. Comment on "Seibert, MK; Rees, WE Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition. Energies 2021, 14, 4508" Reply
ENERGIES(2022)
摘要
We add to the emerging body of literature highlighting cracks in the foundation of the mainstream energy transition narrative. We offer a tripartite analysis that re-characterizes the climate crisis within its broader context of ecological overshoot, highlights numerous collectively fatal problems with so-called renewable energy technologies, and suggests alternative solutions that entail a contraction of the human enterprise. This analysis makes clear that the pat notion of "affordable clean energy" views the world through a narrow keyhole that is blind to innumerable economic, ecological, and social costs. These undesirable "externalities" can no longer be ignored. To achieve sustainability and salvage civilization, society must embark on a planned, cooperative descent from an extreme state of overshoot in just a decade or two. While it might be easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for global society to succeed in this endeavor, history is replete with stellar achievements that have arisen only from a dogged pursuit of the seemingly impossible.
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renewable energy, energy transition, overshoot, biocapacity, ecological limits, social justice, sustainability
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