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Zero net emissions = zero net energy

By Geoff Carmody - posted Wednesday, 10 August 2022

Humans have unlimited living standards aspirations. Global resources are limited. Goods and services are never 'free'.

Are higher world living standards, plus affordable, reliable, 24/7 power, plus lower global greenhouse gas emissions, achievable?

Not if we avoid one key issue, and fail to act upon it.

Population.

Are governments prepared to put their real world policies for reducing emissions where their 'virtue signalling' mouths are?

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About the Author

Geoff Carmody was a director of Geoff Carmody & Associates, a former co-founder of Access Economics, and before that was a senior officer in the Commonwealth Treasury. He died on October 27, 2024. He favoured a national consumption-based climate policy, preferably using a carbon tax to put a price on carbon. He has prepared papers entitled Effective climate change policy: the seven Cs. Paper #1: Some design principles for evaluating greenhouse gas abatement policies. Paper #2: Implementing design principles for effective climate change policy. Paper #3: ETS or carbon tax?