{"id":137333,"date":"2025-11-13T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137333\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:45:09","slug":"oil-and-fossil-fuel-addiction-cant-remain-taboo-in-energy-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137333\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil and Fossil Fuel Addiction Can\u2019t Remain Taboo in Energy Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Suggesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2025-09-11\/peak-fossil-fuel-demand-is-a-crumbling-myth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">fossil fuels will stay around for a long time<\/a> remains taboo in the energy debate. In climate change gatherings, the world has agreed to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/end-of-coal-in-sight-at-cop26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">consign coal to history<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2023-12-13\/climate-emergency-does-cop28-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-fossil-fuels?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=share&amp;utm_campaign=twitte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">transition away<\/a>\u201d from oil and natural gas. It has signaled, too, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/cop28-agreement-signals-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-fossil-fuel-era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">the beginning of the end<\/a>\u201d of the fossil-fuel era and a \u201cswift\u201d transition to renewables. That\u2019s all very well meaning but there\u2019s a problem: With apologies to Margaret Thatcher, fossil fuels are not for turning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Just two years ago, the International Energy Agency unequivocally said that fossil-fuel demand would peak before the end of this decade. It was a black-and-white statement that left no wiggle room. \u201cThe world is on the cusp of a historic turning point,\u201d IEA Executive Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f6155d7b-2ef7-4f62-a08a-b640b7e87fca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Fatih Birol said at the time<\/a>, adding: \u201cThis is the first time that a peak in demand is visible for each fuel this decade \u2014 earlier than many people anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suggesting that fossil fuels will stay around for a long time remains taboo in the energy debate. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2885,246,79403,18932,18934,21576,18933,61,5037,60,3667,18479,82,115,11510],"class_list":["post-137333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-fatih-birol","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-generic-1st-xb-future","tag-generic-1st-xw-future","tag-ie","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-ireland","tag-policy","tag-population-growth","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}