*CLIMATE change denial, *CLIMATE change models, *COBALT industry, *ENERGY economics, *CLIMATE change, *FOSSIL fuel power plants, *LITHIUM industry
Abstract
My former colleague and mentor, Prof. David Boyce, loved Vaclav Smil's ([3]) I How the World Really Works i . Here is Smil's thesis in a nutshell: Complete decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 is now conceivable only at the cost of unthinkable global economic retreat, or as a result of extraordinarily rapid transformations relying on near-miraculous technical advances. To be sure, Smil is no climate change denier. [Extracted from the article]