With a minor edit, my latest email is below.
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I've studied human impact on the environment for 50 years, and watched our "transition" to renewable energy for a tad over 20 years. We've made a little progress in renewable energy, but fossil fuels still rule the roost. Except for a reduction in the use of coal, and except for oil cartels reducing production once in awhile to manipulate the price, and except for lower demand for gasoline during the 1st two years of the pandemic, fossil fuel use has not been significantly reduced in the USA. Plus, renewable energy production has not been able to meet even the annual increase (the increase only) in energy demand here and worldwide. https://www.cnbc.com/
So, I propose the following hypothesis. "It's likely the Powers-That-Be (public & private) in our Land have no intention whatsoever of transitioning to renewable energy. Instead, the plan is to kick the can down the road while having renewables complement the dominant fossil fuels". [Of course, sooner or later, fossil energy either will be too inaccessible to extract affordably, or it will be gone. But that won't be anytime soon, or soon enough.] Meanwhile, a bunch of politicians (funded by the short-sighted fossil industry) have assured the proverbial kicking of the can down the road with the recent Inflation Reduction Act. Said law is somewhat good for the complementary renewable energy industry, and even better for the myopic fossil fuel cartel.
I imagine others have come up with this hypothesis before me, but I suspect most of Main Street still believe the elites are sincere when they claim to be transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewables. Thus I fear pressure in favor of accelerating the transition will abate. Such would be extremely detrimental to Homo sapiens and all other life on Spaceship Earth.
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