The rest of thr world however isn't led on the orders of blue haired whales and knows the place of cheap and quick means of electricity for achieving their industrialization.
I don’t deny the usefulness of fossil fuels when it comes to obtaining quick, stable and cheap energy. From a cost perspective, they are the best source of energy, but the excessive burning of fossil fuels at a global level will have negative consequences for the whole world in the long term.
If every country wants to achieve a high level of industrialization by burning coal, than global emissions will continue to raise for a very long time, and accumulate in the atmosphere. This is now a known fact, and this is why “blue haired whales” are trying to push the world in a direction where it reduces the amount of fossil fuel it burns.
While Europe is paying the price of using more expensive renewable energy instead of simply burning coal, in the form of higher cost of energy and lower competitiveness of energy-intensive industries, it is moving on a sustainable direction. The problem is with the rest of the world that continues to burn coal just because it is a little cheaper.
This is why I said at the begining that Europeans should not court countries like India just for the sake of countering China, because in the end India and China are acting in the exact same way.
In order for the push to renewables to succeed, the whole world needs to cut down on fossil fuels use, and countries like India that continue to build coal power generation are sabotaging this effort.
