{"id":130037,"date":"2021-11-04T19:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/what-transition-renewable-energy-is-growing-but-overall-energy-demand-is-growing-faster"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:23:23","slug":"what-transition-renewable-energy-is-growing-but-overall-energy-demand-is-growing-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/what-transition-renewable-energy-is-growing-but-overall-energy-demand-is-growing-faster","title":{"rendered":"What \u2018transition\u2019? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-transition-renewable-energy-is-growing-but-overall-energy-demand-is-growing-faster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world wants to \u201ctransition\u201d away from fossil fuels toward green energy, but the difficult reality is this: Dirty fuels are not going away \u2014 or even declining \u2014 anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The total amount of renewable energy that\u2019s available is growing. That\u2019s good news for a world threatened by potentially devastating climate change.<\/p>\n<p>But the increase in renewable energy is still lower than the increase in global energy demand overall. A \u201ctransition\u201d from fossil fuels may come someday, but for now, renewable energy isn\u2019t even keeping pace with rising energy demand \u2014 so fossil fuel demand is still growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world wants to \u201ctransition\u201d away from fossil fuels toward green energy, but the difficult reality is this: Dirty fuels are not going away \u2014 or even declining \u2014 anytime soon. The total amount of renewable energy that\u2019s available is growing. That\u2019s good news for a world threatened by potentially devastating climate change. But the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}