Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure by Cory Doctorow

[AZJonnie]

4. So you're telling me you don't believe this?

"The world consumes seventeen times more fossil fuels in a year than we will require to electrify the planet forever:"?

So, not only build all the solar panels and windmills and install them and upgrade the world's electrical grids and create all the batteries and build out the charging infrastructure, but ALSO "electrify" the world's diesel trucks and harvesters (and all the world's other heavy equipment) and jet airplanes and container ships, etc? For the energy-cost equivalent of THREE WEEKS worth of fossil fuels?

Yeah, I don't think so.

Even if we massively built out nuclear, I personally don't think the carbon pollution problem is solvable w/o the worlds population dying back to probably the 3-4B person range and those remaining living with a significantly reduced standard of living, on average. And even then I think the Earth's 6th mass-extinction event is baked into the cake due to the pollution already generated.