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World passes 30% renewables milestone for the first time, decline of fossil inevitable
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What you mean from the beginning there were no fossil fuels?
For the case we likely would be quite technologically hamstrung. I can't see how something like the industrial revolution could have happened without coal, I suppose they would burn wood but I'm not sure the global forests would supply them enough.
I suspect we would be in a far worse position as practically all the forests would have vanished.
At the beginning there were only horses. Then came bicycle and cars. Both with fossil fuels and electric ones. I think even hydrogen was on the table. What won? the cheapest and easiest one.
Industry revolution might have been look differently. Water mills, tie water etc can be helpful. Energy cost nothing.
It would certainly be rough, but not impossible to do things. The we were pretty close to having an early industrial revolution, we even had the steam engine invented really early on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
If inventions like that had been further developed, things could have gone somewhere.
The Romans didn't even have basic numeracy they were never going to invent the steam engine.
The link I posted literally is a steam engine. Not a particularly good one, but a steam engine regardless. They just said "oh wow this is neat. Anyways..."
When they could have said "oh wow this is neat, let's make this better and use this to automate production of things".
They just didn't develop this invention further. A bit more tinkering and they would have had it.