No. You’re a rounding error as a consumer.
If people could help engineer cheaper clean energy or more efficient air conditioning, that would help.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/28/world/air-conditioning-clim...
If people could help engineer cheaper clean energy or more efficient air conditioning, that would help.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/28/world/air-conditioning-clim...
While it may be very true that any one individual may create more positive impact by putting focus on something else, individual consumption is a part of the problem.
Go after your own low hanging fruit. But don't let it distract you if you think you can make a greater impact somehow.
Ironically, one of the things I uncovered in the process of raising my pitchfork and planning a protest against my local utility was the best evidence I've found of just how much of an impact individual actions can have collectively: power consumption in the US has completely flatlined since 2007, so much so that My Local Utility's 20 year plan put out in 2015 was made completely irrelevant in only 3 years. Why? Turns out it's just a little bit more efficient appliances and then a hell of a lot more efficient lightbulbs. Dead serious, that's all it took to stunt the growth of our national power consumption, even accounting for things like manufacturing moving overseas. And the only reason the appliances haven't made as big an impact as the lightbulbs is their longer replacement cycles delay their impact.
Stuff that small and simple absolutely, 100% makes a difference. Those are the quickest, easiest changes we can make because they are the changes within our power, and to act like people can't focus on both at the same time is absurd and imo completely irresponsible. Yes, raise our pitchforks, but always keep in mind that we're the market and our wallets have the power to fuck their shit up. After reading that 10% of total global power consumption is literally just heating and cooling, I'm dropping $80 on a programmable thermostat because that's an easy, effective thing I can do between now and my protest at the end of the month. (Oh ho, stickin it to ya twice, TVA! ;] )
We really need to make some rather large changes. India, China, and emerging markets need a lot of clean, affordable, clean energy, for example.
What? I'm not saying that at all...