What are the concerns with fossil fuel elimination?

Food Shortages and Famine.

At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa gave a speech bragging about his country's move toward sustainable agriculture. Less than a year later, thousands of Sri Lankans face starvation.

[Sri Lanka's Food Crisis Is Man-Made]

It's Not Realistic

Renewable energy sources cannot fully replace oil and gas, which fuels 80 percent of this country’s energy consumption. Renewables CANNOT manufacture any of the oil derivatives that are the basis of the thousands of products that are the foundation of societies and economies around the world.

"The current passion to convert into a world with intermittent electricity is oblivious to the unintended consequences of a world without fossil fuels. The signatories to the green movement have failed to imagine how life was without that industry that did not exist before 1900 when we had, NO medications and medical equipment, NO vaccines, NO water filtration systems, NO sanitation systems, NO fertilizers to help feed billions, NO pesticides to control locusts and other pests, NO communications systems, including cell phones, computers, and I Pads, NO vehicles, NO airlines that now move 4 billion people around the world, NO cruise ships that now move 25 million passengers around the world, NO merchant ships that are now moving billions of dollars of products monthly throughout the world, NO tires for vehicles, and NO asphalt for roads, and NO space program. Looking back just a few short centuries, we have come a long way since the pioneer days. Climate change is important, but so is economic survivability". https://www.cfact.org/2020/10/25/how-would-life-without-fossil-fuels-impact-society/

Electric Cars. In cold weather electric cars have a reduced driving range, struggle to warm up, and drain the electric battery even further.

States like California have target dates for eliminating gas powered cars. In 2020, there were 286.9 million cars in the US. How are we going to add electricity for all of these cars ontop of powering homes and businesses? It may be that fewer people will be able to own cars.

Global food shortages and winter deaths are a real possibilities as fossil fuels get cut.

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Is Green Energy enviromentally friendly and achievable?

NO. There are many aspects of wind and solar power that are damaging to the environment. Repacing the amount of energy produced today by fossil fuels is scientifically impossible.

• Mining. Researchers have warned that mining threats to biodiversity caused by renewable energy production could surpass those averted by climate change mitigation.
  https://phys.org/news/2020-09-renewable-energy-threat-environment.html
• Land. According to Bloomberg "Expanding wind and solar by 10% annually until 2030 would require a chunk of land equal to the state of South Dakota, according to Princeton University estimates and an analysis by Bloomberg News. By 2050, when Biden wants the entire economy to be carbon free, the U.S. would need up to four additional South Dakotas to develop enough clean power to run all the electric vehicles, factories and more.".
• Birds. According to the National Bird Conservatory approximately 681,000 birds are currently killed by wind turbines in the U.S. each year. These estimates likely underestimate the true extent of the problem due to the fact that many bird fatalities escape human detection. Studies have shown it is often larger birds of prey, of which there are fewer in an ecosystem, that are more likely to fly into blades. Birds are also killed by the heat radiating from solar panels.
  https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/
• Disposal. According to the Institue of Energy Research "Electric vehicle batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines result in a massive amount of waste and pollution. Solar panels are mostly made of glass, which has low value as a recycled material, but they also have small amounts of silicon, silver, and copper as well as heavy metals (cadmium, lead, etc.) that some governments classify as hazardous waste. Hazardous waste can only be transported at designated times and via select routes. Because solar panels are delicate and bulky, specialized labor is required to detach and remove them to avoid their shattering and polluting local areas." According to NPR "While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm, researchers estimate the U.S. will have more than 720,000 tons of blade material to dispose of over the next 20 years, a figure that doesn't include newer, taller higher-capacity versions."
  https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/green-technologies-cause-massive-waste-and-pollution/
  https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste-problem-caused-by-wind-energy

Many of the minerals needed for solar panels are only available in China. We would be giving foreign nations, including unfriendly countries, control over our power.

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