When I think of global warming it's stuff like this that makes me chuckle. I can try to reduce my emissions, but the system is built for unlimited fuel burning. Leaving the oven on with the door open so you don't miss your chance to bake cookies.
I feel like the world is going to keep complaining about energy usage in space if we become a space faring civilization. There are going to be space-environmentalists who will oppose fusion power.
I want to be clear - I want us to move to completely carbon free energy. Green house effect is not going to go away by chipping away at this or that. Some people in CA are telling me to not have kids so that we can keep the climate cool. Ridiculous. But no one dares to even suggest a Manhattan project with extreme urgency to solve this climate problem once in forever.
>squeezing the last few bits
tell that to .us companies that manufacture in China since 70s
India's entire CO2 output is less than half that of the United States, by the way, and its per-capita output is one-eighth. [1] (And gods only know much methane is leaking from American wells. We really aren't interested in counting that.) If you're going to put the squeeze on someone, it should be on the latter... But because we aren't going to squeeze ourselves, we deflect, deflect, deflect.
[1] Since it seems to get by on emitting one-eighth what we do, it sounds like there's plenty left to squeeze from our emissions.
You have plenty of first world countries with a fraction of the US and Canada's per capita emissions.
You need to look within. You guys are very factually just wasteful. The US and Canada are the ones that stand out like a sore thumb among the First world countries. [0]
Only countries like Qatar and Kuwait are more wasteful than the US and Canada in CO2 per capita emissions.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
Edit: added stats, it almost looks bimodal.
China is as capable as the rest of the first world to enforce higher standards if not more.
https://ourworldindata.org/per-capita-co2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
>> China has some of the dirtiest air in the world, but a large share of the country's pollutants are generated during the manufacture of goods destined for countries like the United States, according to a new study.
>> about a fifth to a third of China's air pollutants—which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide—were associated with the production of goods for export, and that about a fifth of those amounts were linked to the production of goods for the United States.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140122-ma...