Robert Gebelhoff writes in The Washington Post that climate activists have lost sight of their mission.
- Climate activists have chosen to wage a war on fossil fuels instead of focusing on addressing climate change.
- Traditional energy production can help the U.S. and the world reduce emissions without causing an energy crisis.
- Achieving meaningful climate progress will require solutions that do not make energy and food more expensive for families nor impede innovation.
- An all of the above approach will accelerate global economic growth, increase upward mobility, and lower emissions.
“What too many well-meaning activists don’t seem to understand — or don’t want to admit — is that the clean energy industry is nowhere near ready to replace fossil fuels, which make up 60 percent of all electricity production in the United States. Even if the country were prepared politically to start turning off its carbon spigot, it simply could not do so without generating an energy crisis.”
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