(cont'd from yesterday's post)
One thing that really stands out in yesterday's chart is the striking decline in U.S. emissions.
A wealthy country with a free market is the kind of place where brave and capable people are able and willing to take a risk on a new idea. That innovative process, a new idea executed successfully, happened in America. "[R]evolutionary technologies of fracking and horizontal drilling . . accessed oceans of previously inaccessible natural gas beneath the ground."
Coal as an energy source is much less used here now. (China's coal use has more than doubled in 20 years.) Those new technologies are responsible for the big decline in U.S. CO2 emissions because natural gas as a source of power emits far less carbon.
Innovation is possible because human beings of any country are dreamers, creators, problem solvers.
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