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Reasons for Increasing emIssions

PROBLEM ONE: Population size

• People demand a good quality of life and to participate in the economy, therefore increasing emissions

PROBLEM TWO: Economic Growth

• The richer and more developed we are, the more emissions we produce per person. Growth has become the global mantra of world counties, but the more economic growth a country experiences, the more emissions
  • Poorer countries wish to grow, to take people out of poverty, but in developing societies that means enormous increases for emissions
• as a consequence of this growth, emissions will rise

Possible Solutions

SOLUTION ONE: Energy Intensity

• Describes how efficiently we use energy - the more efficient something is, the less power one needs to do things
• coming up with new technology that's more efficient will decrease emissions

Increasing Efficiency will not be enough, because:

1. Direct rebound effects

• Once something becomes more efficient, it will be used more. For example, when planes became more efficent, people flew more, using more energy

2. Indirect Rebound Effects

• If people save money because they have an electric car and their house electricity is solar, it might mean they might use that extra money to fly more, travel more, consume more. Therefore, you might use more energy

3. Less Return on Investment

• the more you optimise for efficiency, the harder and more expensive it becomes to be more efficient

Efficiency Alone will not reduce emissions enough

SOLUTION TWO: Emission per energy unit produces

Global carbon footprint

• CO2 produced per unit of energy, coal makes more fossil fuel then wind turbines
• The reality is society is not doing enough to use lower carbon alternatives
• First, we today's technology needs to be used

1. Cut subsidies from fossil fuel industries and tunnel them into renualbles
2. Price Carbon emission harshly, and increase the price of them each year to push industry to greener solutions