I have removed all direct fossil fuel usage from my life. It didn't even cost much, half of if I achieved by spending less money than the average person does.

Seriously, I know people on similar or less than me (£29k) who are paying more per year on just their ICE SUV loan than my heat pump cost. For transport I cycle further than they drive and it takes less time because you can skip past most of the traffic.

Can everyone electrify? Perhaps not. But too many people they are actively choosing not to, and even spending more to be dependent on fossil fuels. Diesel hit £2/litre? For private car use, I say it isn't expensive enough.

The root of the problem is people think we can transition from fossil fuels to electricity and renewables and still have the "normal" that was built on fossil fuels.

I agree, we can't maintain the normal fossil fuels built with clean electricity. But, we can't maintain this normal regardless. It's not sustainable. We need to transition to clean electricity even though that's going to mean a new normal. A lot of people don't want a new normal, and to those people I say: want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster. We're getting a new normal one way or another.

No it can and it likely does to an extend right now. So far we had three events, which actually lowered oil consumption. One was the 2008 financial crisis and one was Covid. The third was the last time the Strait of Hormuz had serious issues, namely the Iran-Iraq War. That actually lowered oil consumption by enough to lower global primary energy consumption. That obviously picked up after that again, but today we actually have EVs, wind, solar, heat pumps and so forth. We also see attacks against Russia fossil fuel infrastructure. Also the global population grew a lot faster after 1979 then it does today.

Do you think were currently at our absolute maximum renewable energy production/expansion right now?

Cause why could we not just do something like take 100% of our fossil fuel money, put it into renewables, and use 50% of that growth to add new energy to the grid, then 50% to replace the old fossil grid.

Obviously hypothetical, but we could easily not only hold our current power use, but actually increase it while transitioning to renewables.

if they get the numbers everyone protesting now should change the message to impeach now.