"Reliance on fossil fuels has created the modern world, but concerns about the relatively rapid rate of global warming have led to widespread calls for doing away with fossil carbon as expeditiously as possible. **Ideally, the decarbonization of the global energy supply should proceed fast enough to limit average global warming to no more than 1.5ºC (at worst 2ºC). That, according to most climate models, would mean reducing net global CO2 emissions to zero by 2050 and keeping them negative for the remainder of the century**." ([Location 864](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=864)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[Net Zero]], [[decarbonisation]], [[fossil-fuels]], [[climate-change]] **Source** --