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India is looking to cut its emissions by 45% from 2005 levels by 2028. India missed its target to install 175 GW of renewableenergy by 2022, and is now trying to make up for that by boosting solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and bio-power to 500 GW by 2030. in 2019 to 72.8%
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The attacks on me appear designed to distract attention from the concerns I am raising with renewables and nuclearenergy. I have advocated for renewables in the past, but 20 years of experience and research have led me to conclude that renewableenergy sources cannot power our high-energy civilization.
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What the aid agencies did not say was that lending for agriculture had declined from 20 percent of official development assistance in 1980 to 3 percent in 2005 when the food crisis hit.”. Beyond mischaracterizing my position toward nuclear and other energy sources, Gleick suggests I ignore problems with them. Ehrlich agreed. “In
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