The city’s political leaders promise that this strategy for attaining carbon neutrality “provides an overall positive economic picture and will lead to economic benefits for Copenhageners” based on the expectation that prices for conventional energy sources like coal, oil, and gas will rise in the coming years. But the often-heard justification for this assumption – that humanity is rapidly depleting these scarce resources – is inconsistent with real-world events, as innovation has effectively expanded oil, gas, and coal reserves to unprecedented levels in recent years.
只有煤、石油和天然气等传统能源价格在未来几年内上涨预期兑现，哥本哈根政治领袖许诺的这种碳中性政策才能“确保积极的总体经济状况并为哥本哈根人带来经济回报”。但这种假设最常听到的理由——人类正在快速消耗这些稀缺资源——却因为创新近年来将石油、天然气及煤炭储量有效扩大至前所未有的水平而并不符合实际发生的状况。