SECTION B
Summary
In his article “Why Africa does not need Bjorn Lomborg’s fossil fuel advertising”, Lenferna (2016) criticises Lomborg’s view that Africa needs fossils fuels. He argues that Africa should develop cost effective, renewable and low carbon electricity that could alleviate the African people from poverty and provide significant benefits to the local communities. Hence, Lenferna asserts that Africa must be encouraged to actualise a domestic green energy revolution.
Firstly, Lenferna discredits Lomborg’s view that Africa needs fossil fuels. He states that Lomborg ignores projections such as the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Energy for all Scenario which aims to provide universal energy access through renewable energy sources. …show more content…
This generalisation does not hold for countries like Kenya where the lack of legal frameworks impedes the implementation of RET’s (Osok,2010). Hence, this premise is irrelevant to the author’s claim commits the fallacy of generalisation.
The relevant premises are insufficient to support the author’s claim as they fail to address the government policy decisions required to install RET’s. According to the Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions(n.d.), policy decisions alongside market factors such as resource availability and cost are primary drivers for the deployment of RET’s. Hence, examples such as the innovation energy policy programme implemented by the African Energy Policy Research Network to promote the development of renewables (Karezki & Kithiyoma,2003) would have garnered the premises more sufficiency. Therefore, the argument is not cogent due to insufficient …show more content…
CTI (2014) reports that development of mini-grid and off-grid RET’s could dominate energy production in Africa. Moreover, various African countries have set future targets to increase the share of renewable energy due to the emergence of RET’s (African Development Bank Group, 2012). Therefore, this premise is true as rapid development in RET’S could allow for scenarios where Africa’s electricity production is dominated by renewables.
Lenferna’s second premise is unlikely to be true. Both the IEA (2016) and World Energy Council (2013) report that the share of low carbon resources to meet global electricity demands will be more than 80% by 2050. As fast-developing and developed countries such as India, China and USA have shown tremendous renewable energy growth and are expected to do so in the future (IEA,2016), the fact that Africa can generate more than 80% of its electricity through renewables by 2050 could be erroneous. Thus, the premise is unlikely to be
Summary
In his article “Why Africa does not need Bjorn Lomborg’s fossil fuel advertising”, Lenferna (2016) criticises Lomborg’s view that Africa needs fossils fuels. He argues that Africa should develop cost effective, renewable and low carbon electricity that could alleviate the African people from poverty and provide significant benefits to the local communities. Hence, Lenferna asserts that Africa must be encouraged to actualise a domestic green energy revolution.
Firstly, Lenferna discredits Lomborg’s view that Africa needs fossil fuels. He states that Lomborg ignores projections such as the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Energy for all Scenario which aims to provide universal energy access through renewable energy sources. …show more content…
This generalisation does not hold for countries like Kenya where the lack of legal frameworks impedes the implementation of RET’s (Osok,2010). Hence, this premise is irrelevant to the author’s claim commits the fallacy of generalisation.
The relevant premises are insufficient to support the author’s claim as they fail to address the government policy decisions required to install RET’s. According to the Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions(n.d.), policy decisions alongside market factors such as resource availability and cost are primary drivers for the deployment of RET’s. Hence, examples such as the innovation energy policy programme implemented by the African Energy Policy Research Network to promote the development of renewables (Karezki & Kithiyoma,2003) would have garnered the premises more sufficiency. Therefore, the argument is not cogent due to insufficient …show more content…
CTI (2014) reports that development of mini-grid and off-grid RET’s could dominate energy production in Africa. Moreover, various African countries have set future targets to increase the share of renewable energy due to the emergence of RET’s (African Development Bank Group, 2012). Therefore, this premise is true as rapid development in RET’S could allow for scenarios where Africa’s electricity production is dominated by renewables.
Lenferna’s second premise is unlikely to be true. Both the IEA (2016) and World Energy Council (2013) report that the share of low carbon resources to meet global electricity demands will be more than 80% by 2050. As fast-developing and developed countries such as India, China and USA have shown tremendous renewable energy growth and are expected to do so in the future (IEA,2016), the fact that Africa can generate more than 80% of its electricity through renewables by 2050 could be erroneous. Thus, the premise is unlikely to be