Q: Why are energy-related emissions ready to decline for the first time since the Industrial Revolution?
A:Before the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840), emissions were very low. As the WEF explains, however, with the increased use of fossil fuels to power machines, emissions rose to 6 billion tons of CO₂ per year globally by 1950. The amount had almost quadrupled by 1990, reaching a rate of over 22 billion tons per year. Currently, the world emits over 34 billion tons of CO₂ each year. Since 1751, the world has emitted over 1.5 trillion tons of CO₂ cumulatively.
The answer presented in this article doesn’t seem to address the related question
Huh, they really don’t, do they? That’s a bit sloppy.
The article they link goes into a bit more detail, though: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/peak-energy-emissions-a-historic-moment-overshadowed-by-the-endurance-of-fossil-fuels/
it’ll be worse in a few years when president poopstain starts ww3
