Reduce emissions: Should energy prices be increased?

According to economists, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the United States in the next 50 years tends to be many times larger than half a century ago. So they suggested increasing energy prices to lessen this process.

Industrial energy being widely used around the world has a strong impact on the rise in global temperature, melting ice in the two poles, rising sea levels, and the risk of natural disasters. more serious.

The US Energy Security magazine has published research results conducted by the famous scientists Richard Eckaus and Ian Sue Wing under the sponsorship of the Government. Accordingly, although the world has made efforts to improve technology,

Industrial energy is being widely used all over the world and has a strong impact on the rise of Earth temperature (Photo: LiveScience)

but annual energy use and greenhouse gas emissions still increase at a rapid rate, ranging from 1.6% to 2.2%, by two main causes:

Firstly , the use of obsolete machinery and equipment is still increasing in developing countries, typically China. While measures to treat pollution in these countries are increasingly less effective.

Secondly , industries always tend to need more energy to get more products. The metallurgy industry of the United States is an example: thanks to automation, the amount of coal used for each product has decreased significantly, but because it wants more products at lower costs, steel mills increase scale producing and consuming more coal, increasing CO ₂ emissions.

Thus, according to Eckaus, technology innovation does not help reduce but sometimes also increase greenhouse gas emissions, if not combined with other measures, including increasing energy prices to reduce this process.

Huong Giang