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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.

Eric Maugendre

@data.yt

31 Aug

"As heat engines grew more efficient, humanity consumed more fossil fuels." @blairfix.bsky.social wrote about efficiency as a catalyst for technological sprawl: economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/05/18/a...

Eric Maugendre

@data.yt

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." 🧵

omny.fmThe energy transition debate we need to have - ZeroThe key to tackling climate change is moving away from burning fossil fuels to using renewable energy. But in his book More and More and More, French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues that the wo...

6/9/26, 3:10 pm0 reposts1 like

Eric Maugendre

@data.yt

6 Sept

… "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".

Eric Maugendre

@data.yt

6 Sept

Very nice listening. Thank you @akshatrathi.bsky.social