The thing is, we can’t just immediately turn off all the coal and natural gas power plants
No, but they could be completely replaced by a combination of renewable energy production and would have been if not for people like you making excuses for sticking with the deadly status quo.
all the diesel and gasoline powered vehicles
There’s literally no vehicle that can be powered by diesel or gasoline that can’t be powered by an electric motor.
So, we have to keep producing fuel for those machines so long as they remain in use.
And if it was up to you, that would probably be forever.
that’s just not happening, at least not very quickly.
It would have happened decades ago if not for luddites like you.
And, sure, many, many solar and wind farms have been built over the past several years, but those two energy sources only account for about 6% of our total energy consumption.
Because people like you keep voting for politicians who are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industries and thus only a fraction of the possible production is realized.
The non fossil fuel machines and equipment just aren’t being adopted quickly enough, and in some sectors, like air travel, non fossil fuel alternatives just don’t exist yet
Again, because of luddites like you standing on the brakes as the world burns.
What this means is that fossil fuel consumption is going to remain for the foreseeable future.
The tens of millions of people killed in the next decade or two as a direct result thank you and people like you.