what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables
- Written by: Liz Conor, ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
Child coal miners, Pennsylvania, 1911Lewis Wickes Hines/Wikimedia CommonsIn 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they’ve been offset by increased demand for energy.
That’s why the United Nations earlier this month released a...
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