That's just silly. Energy is what matters, not carbon.
You're ignoring of well-established science.
CO2 remains resident in the atmosphere for 1,000s of years after it's emitted by combustion. During those millenia,
vastly more heat is trapped via the greenhouse effect than was tapped for useful work when that carbon was burned. Perhaps the least energy efficient mechanism ever devised.
No,
it's the carbon cycle that matters. The world economy is out of balance by at least 50% on the emissions side right now, possibly even 90% in the long term. Burning fossil fuels simple dumps carbon into the atmosphere with
longlasting, compounding, deleterious effects, none of which are priced into the cost of those emissions (ask the President of Bahamas).
FFs are not an 'energy'
source; they are a long-term chemical
storage mechanism for solar energy, one which we tap today for our temporary convenience at our long-term peril. Burning FFs a faustian bargain, acceptable only to short-term thinkers.
The science is clear and is
not new. The fundamentals were well known over 60 years ago when Frank Capra released his film "The Unchained Goddess" in 1958:
This is a
chemistry problem with a business solution but only when we
price carbon to allow the free Market to reallocate resources. That's how we get the energy we need in the future, end the burning of coal, oil, and gas all while rebalancing the carbon cycle.
The bonus is that our Sun provides
1,000x more energy to the Earth than we curently obtain from burning fossil fuels. 100 years from now, people will talk about how clinging to FFs was holding us back from a better future.
Telsa is at the forefront of this clean energy revolution, and as investors we are all part of that movement. That's not silly; it's existential.
Let's roll.