The idea of ‘green growth’ is flawed. We must find ways of using and wasting less energy. https://www.deccanherald.com/science-and-environment/the-idea-of-green-growth-is-flawed-we-must-find-ways-of-using-and-wasting-less-energy-991678.html
All our renewable technologies are significantly less energy dense than fossil fuels .Every technology to replace them, while attempting even to maintain our current consumption, requires huge amounts of fossil energy. our consumption increases faster than we can add renewable generation.
The new renewable infrastructure requires rare earth minerals. Electricity is only 20 per cent of our total energy use.
International Energy Agency ‘Net Zero by 2050 report’—Business Summary:
https://www.wbcsd.org/contentwbc/download/12197/182629/1
Responding to the Deccan Herald article, Climate Policy Analyst, Shankar Sharma told DH of the fedback to IEA
"to adequately focus on ways and means of urgently reducing the global demand on materials and energy in order to make the energy transition model sustainable.
Our society must do all that is feasible to minimise these impacts; but sadly our governance structure, including various regulatory agencies, the Parliament and the Judiciary, seem to be oblivious of these consequences. "National media houses like DH should consider carrying effective editorials on the topic, and also launch a massive media campaign to educate/warn our political leaders and bureaucrats about the enormous potential of unacceptable costs and existential threats to our communities because of the pursuit of business as usual model of the high GDP growth paradigm in India, which rarely, if ever, talks about the natural limit to the growth/ materials/ energy."
See Letter of Shankar Sharma to the IEA :