CO2 emissions versus poverty and prosperity
John Shanahan
USA
2020
Fossil fuels and nuclear can improve the world. They already have done a lot. Extremists demand that poor people use solar ovens, wind turbines, and solar panels. They demand that the modern world give up fossil fuels and nuclear. Leave fossil fuels in the ground.
John Shanahan, Civil Engineer, Editor of allaboutenergy.net and efn-usa.org: One simple graph of carbon dioxide emissions versus poverty and prosperity would make most people understand the tremendous importance of fossil fuels. But extremists using the motto of save the world from catastrophic climate disruption demand that humanity abandon the most important thing for the modern world, namely plentiful, reliable, has many uses and by-products, fossil fuels. There is going to be a struggle to keep the modern world.