Why We Can't Just Do It: The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions

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Why We Can't Just Do It: The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions
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We're at a crisis point. A sacrifice is needed and only a sacred cow will do. But we know the problem with sacred cows.

that delivers oil to the West Coast states; if the amount of flow declines much more due to the depletion of older oilfields, the pipeline could freeze up in the winter and become useless, depriving those blue states of a half million barrels a day of crude, which would be hard to replace.)

At the same time, our fossil fuel supplies deplete further, giving us less of an energy cushion for building an energy system to replace the current one that relies on coal, oil, and gas. Policymakers may find this unthinkable, because they have built their careers on the assumption that the economy must always grow, and that people must always be promised the opportunity to consume more. Yet until public discussion turns in the direction of managed energy descent and rationing, nothing will happen to avert climate hell.

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