A decline in fossil fuel power is now ‘inevitable’, the report’s authors say.
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the bad news is:
at first that sounds great but what that really means is fossil fuel use is still increasing; that 30% figure does not tell the whole story.
If the data is correct, these are the last years of fossil growth - from now on, renewables will be outpeacing the growing demand
if their interpretation of the data is correct. we’ll see.