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melling 17 hours ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/iran-energy-cr...

It’s quite impressive how the world is unable to reduce greenhouse emissions.

leonidasrup 17 hours ago | parent [-]

In history of the world there was almost never a reduction of greenhouse emissions. Only time that world did reduce greenhouse emissions was in times of economic crises and COVID-19.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

Asia will do what US did in 1979, Jimmy Carter delivered this televised speech on July 15, 1979.

"Point three: To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel -- from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-...