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The world’s energy-related carbon emissions rose by 1.7 percent in 2017 and energy consumption grew by 2.2 percent, the fastest rate since 2013. For the past decade, primary energy consumption increased worldwide at an average rate of 1.7 percent per year. Power generation rose last year by 2.8 percent with renewable energy providing 49 percent of that increase and most of the rest (44 percent) coming from coal. Globally, oil consumption grew by 1.8 percent, natural gas by 3 percent and coal consumption increased by 1 percent. The key point is that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are increasing even as renewable energy use is growing. ( https://truthout.org/articles/the-limits-of-green-energy-under-capitalism/ )
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Capitalism requires perpetual economic growth in order to avoid economic crises such as the Great Depression. More specifically, in order to stave off mass unemployment and economic misery, capitalism requires increasing commodity production, escalating resource extraction, increasing trash and toxic dumping, and ever increasing energy production. Capitalism, by its very nature, must expand unendingly and it has already surpassed the limits of sustainable growth in the sense that global consumption now exceeds the planet’s bio-capacity to regenerate the resources consumed. According to the World Wildlife Fund, 1.6 Earths would be required to meet the demands humanity makes on nature each year. Capitalism is not only incapable of responding adequately to the environmental crisis, it is the very cause of the crisis and can only make matters worse.
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So there you have it. As long as Trump engages in a tariff war that reduces trade, consumption will lessen. Mother Nature thanks you hateful republicans for stopping Mrs. $15 Minimum Wage. She would have driven up consumption and driven us past the point of no return.
 
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So there you have it. As long as Trump engages in a tariff war that reduces trade, consumption will lessen. Mother Nature thanks you hateful republicans for stopping Mrs. $15 Minimum Wage. She would have driven up consumption and driven us past the point of no return.
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You are an idiot
 
Kacper said:
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So there you have it. As long as Trump engages in a tariff war that reduces trade, consumption will lessen. Mother Nature thanks you hateful republicans for stopping Mrs. $15 Minimum Wage. She would have driven up consumption and driven us past the point of no return.
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Hmmm. Your second source uses wording that indicates bias, but your premise is both interesting and alarming. One take-away is that tariffs are going to reduce demand. We all knows what happens to the economy when demand falls.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Hmmm. Your second source uses wording that indicates bias, but your premise is both interesting and alarming. One take-away is that tariffs are going to reduce demand. We all knows what happens to the economy when demand falls.
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They both are from the same source, and reducing consumption is a necessary component of carbon emissions reductions. As the source indicates, energy demand is growing faster than alternative energy supplies. Prosperity increases consumption.
 
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