[pietherr]

The section about the sustainability winner completely ignores climate change. Mind boggling.

> The problem: Fossil fuels continue to account for over 81% of global energy product according to the International Energy Agency. It is estimated that, if we continue to burn fossil fuels at the current rate, global supplies of gas and oil will deplete by 2060.

[numlock86]

> global supplies of gas and oil will deplete by 2060.

In 1990 I was told fossil fuels will be depleted by 2010.

[chalst]

The prediction was that peak oil (i.e. the maximum rate of oil extraction) would happen in 2000. For conventional oil, this was not far off: production peaked in 2005 and has been in decline since. What the prediction missed is that we would extract shale oil on a large scale. The long-term economic viability of fracking is in doubt, though, since apparently no fracking enterprise has been profitable to date; it's all financed by venture capital.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/11/16/peak-oil-neve...

[JacobSuperslav]

people are sometimes wrong, but i think the 2010 was sensationalized headlines, not actual science

[cheschire]

Sounds like they picked a scope limited enough to guarantee competing submissions are comparable on the same metrics.

That they didn't prioritize scopes the way you do does not seem that mind boggling to me.

[est31]

Is that relevant? If you do something you are way better than the folks who just virtue signal. The result is what counts. That's what Greta herself says.