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eBook details
- Title: The Tragedy of Less Bad (Automobile Energy Efficiency) (Report)
- Author : Synthesis/Regeneration
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Science & Nature,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
The biggest and perhaps most misleading or problematic fact about today's movement to stop climate change is what superficially sounds good: increased energy efficiency. Increasing energy efficiency (say, miles per gallon) would be an excellent way to reduce energy use or emissions. It is great, absolutely. But it is great only if it leads to a decrease in total energy consumption. If you increase your car's miles per gallon (mpg) from 10 to 20 but drive twice as far as you used to, you achieve nothing. What if the population grows? If you increase the mpg of all types of cars from 10 to 20 and drive as much as you used to, but population doubles, you also achieve nothing. It can be difficult to calculate these factors. Therefore, it is very unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction, which has to be achieved by 2050 to stop climate change, by focusing on energy efficiency. Data regarding carbon intensity decreases, energy efficiency increases and total carbon dioxide emission increases over the last few decades show the impossibility of achieving an 80% reduction.
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