Tom Ritchford
1 min readDec 24, 2023

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84% of Brazil's electricity comes from renewable sources. But Brazil also has almost 50 million motor vehicles, nearly all of which burn fossil fuels.

You also ignore the tremendous output of CO2 from the endless burnoffs of trees and jungles.

Together, these make Brazil the twelfth largest CO2 emitter of all countries.

The first part of your statement is also incorrect, because the CO2 from the fossil fuels stays in the atmosphere for centuries. If we exhaust our fossil fuels by burning, then we're going to +14ºF, and great swaths of the tropics will be uninhabitable for humans.

More, we are continuing to build more fossil fuel power plants, and they will be in operating for many decades.

Your comment is wildly irresponsible. We are in a desperate fight for our very lives, and you simply brush it off as an already solved problem, using unsupported claims that are provably false.

The worst is that I've been reading people like you claiming that it's an already solved problem for almost 50 years now. It's my belief that this hopium is at least partly responsible for the dire position we are in.

If you are going to respond, please provide some citations for your claims.

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