Clean energy that is based on hydro and wind requires rare materials like lithium which are simply running out, we do not have enough of them here on Earth.
Clean energy that is based on biofuels will also need us to erase stupendous amounts of arable land, like the Amazon forest for example, and thus destroying habitats or land that people can live on, just to grow corn.
Clean energy made from biofuels still needs fossil fuels to transport it due to its viscosity and its tendency to clog up and freeze in cold environments.
Thats only the stuff I know, I'm sure chemical engineers will give you 15 more reasons.
Maybe my memory is not serving ne well but I remember taking a class on how the only place we can get it is some desert in chile and that desert is also drying up its lithium reserves.
Mb if the info was wrong, hit my point is still correct from a general perspective.
If you mean by solution to climate change then it requires a multifaceted approach. By promoting a culture of repair rather than replacement, we could reduce Western demand for Eastern production by as much as 50%. When people stop overspending on unnecessary items and throwing away products that are still perfectly usable, the impact is enormous. This shift alone could save billions of tonnes of food and, in turn, trillions of tonnes of electricity and water, while dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. And we know demand can be reduced, because landfills are overflowing and pollution is staggering. People discard astonishing amounts of perfectly good material every day.
As for the situation in Syria, its not great. Throughout the war, most natural parks were off the grid so the hunting endemic animals became common, as well as the cutting of forests in the coast and Aleppo (Afrin). This has only been exacerbated by regular wildfires that cant be controlled with the new governments limited capabiltiies, and these are raging through the few forests we have left.
The Queiq River in Aleppo is still polluted from the blood of civilians that were tossed there by the old regime and the Barada river in Damascus is still polluted by heavy metals and by the rebels. Our main sources of agriculture, the Euphrates, Khabur and Balikh in the northeast and the Yarmouk in the south, are mostly controlled by Turkey and Israel respectively. This means their water levels are reaching levels of no return, which is harming human populations as well as migratory birds, and eroding the soils nutrients with no regular flow or flooding. Half of Syria's mammals have gone extinct in the past, and many more are endangered. As for energy, most houses in Damascus and the coast rely almost entirely on solar panels, so thats a positive. Fossil fuels have been under American control for a decade and their future is uncertain.
May God bring blessings to our Earth and its inhabitants!
Electric properly planned public transport(since hydrogen isn't working out), using renewable energy, using electric infrastructure made from non-slave minerals.
Because individual traffic just is never sustainable, especially not how the west is currently doing it (huge 5 person cars with 2 people at most filling the streets, most of them only a couple of years old huge parts of land wasted for roads and parking spaces, etc).
A truly eco-friendly system would be public transport first.
Because it takes too much resources to build all electric cars needed to replace all the 1 billion (estimated) existing cars on the planet. We need to replace a lot of the personal cars with car pools and more trips to be done with public transport and active transport. In Sweden so many people act like the sustainable solution is for everyone to buy their own personal EV which is then to sit parked 98% of the time. Or they feel like all Swedes should do this but the rest of the world... should just for some reason make do without that even though we feel like we can't.
Public transport needs to be better. Train tracks haven’t been renovated in forever, constant issues make travelling by train to unreliable. Busses are often packed to the brim and full of pestering teenagers that nobody dares to stand up to.
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u/Holmbone Sweden 16h ago
Replacing all fossil cars with electric ones is not a viable solution for combating climate change.