Forty percent of the world’s ship traffic, for instance, consists of moving coal and gas and oil back and forth across the ocean to be burned, a delivery job the sun accomplishes each morning as it moves across the heavens.
McKibben, Bill. Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization (p. 50). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
The fact that forty percent of fossil fuels are transported by ship traffic which themselves burn tremendous amounts of fossil fuel just to facilitate their delivery is significant when another source of energy, solar and wind, is daily delivered right to our door without any effort on human effort whatsoever.
As a side note, Ukraine may be winning the war with Russia because it has damaged the ports and shipping of Russian oil which was providing the funding for Russia’s war against Ukraine. Will the customers for that Russian oil now be motivated to change their energy sources from fossil to renewable energy?
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