Thoughts on Energy Poverty and a Sustainable Transition

“Simplistic rhetoric classifying energy sources as clean and dirty, good and bad have polarized populations in Western Europe and North America, with a rallying cry for carbon-free energy sources, minimizing the environmental impacts that come from manufacturing and disposing of ‘renewable’ energies and batteries.”

Oil Intel podcast hosts Adam Cohen and Michael Beimford applaud Switch Energy Alliance’s objective approach to energy education. Dr. Tinker, Cohen, and Beimford talk about companies and countries that claim to have “zero emissions” when in reality they are importing goods from regions, like Southeast Asia, that have a large carbon footprint. A sustainable transition is solvable if we avoid focusing on a philosophical and political debate.

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