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Using more renewable energies does not lower emissions or pollution. A thread:

Historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz shows that there has never been and there is not an energy transition, since energies accumulate and stack on top of each other.

You can decarbonize some energy. "The book is rather about […] the ideology, that you have behind this idea of energy transition." It "gives people the impression that you can have the exact same economy without fossil fuels." "What matters is not the number of people but the way they live." 🧵

… "The net zero scenarios, they do not envisage the GDP of rich countries to decrease, for instance, which is a very strange hypothesis when you think about it. If you really want to get to net zero, you could say, okay, let's start where it is easy to decrease emissions, like the US or Australia".