Everyone would need to accept a significant decrease in their quality of living and very very few will actually accept that.
So no, nothing of any great significance is going to happen with preventing climate change.
So no, nothing of any great significance is going to happen with preventing climate change.
Most of what I changed were things I just did based on habit - habits probably formed by my parents when they thought energy was basically free. It's not hard at all. For example, I kept changing my thermostat until I found the minimum needed to be comfortable - it turns out I could cut energy consumption there by ~75% with zero impact on comfort, and enjoy much more fresh air.
The issue is politics. The reactionary right, which seems to be the most influential power in the world right now (the only one not wallowing in despair), portrays liberalism of any sort as a catastrophic, demonic threat (no exaggeration) and otherwise has the characteristics of an angry mob. They are going to attack anything associated with liberalism, including climate change knowledge, action, discussion, etc. Until that problem is solved, nothing will happen.
We should have been working on this problem 30, 40 years ago. But on the upside, I guess I have the internet in my pocket.
As a species, we seemed to have handled nuclear weapons relatively well. But it looks like we really fucked this one up.
Humanity has been doing those things for centuries. Stop talking and go.
This is necessary and indeed admirable. A family member saying they’ve given up on using gas/electric clothes dryer has convinced me to take the baby step of reducing my own use. I do t put towels in the dryer anymore. I hang them dry. Baby steps.
Cutting your own footprint is good but not enough.
Even people I know who claim to care about climate change don't care to change. AC set to 72. Heating set to 70. New laptops every year. Driving to save 5 minutes. 6k square foot house full of crap.
I have had some neighbors notice and comment that "it's great" that we do some of these things (mainly not using the car very much). But they still don't care enough to change. Bleh.
> don't care
> don't care
> Bleh.
Look at how far you've gone down the despair rabbit hole; look at the endless rhetoric - fashionable these days. It's like a religion; people will debate for it and insist on it. People fighting for despair!
You are a leader, you just don't realize it. What you do, how you do it, what you say, it moves others. Let's stop debating this absurdity and let's get to work.
I wouldn't held my breath. We are just at the beginning.
That's not true. Politics is the distribution of power; to politicize something is to turn it into a power struggle. People have lots of interests, relationships, and motivations sans power struggles.
"Despite further strong growth in wind and solar in the power sector, overall global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions increased again," said the president of the UK-based global industry body Energy Institute, Juliet Davenport.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/26/wrong-direction-fo...
That was some quick googling on my part, it seems not?
You can produce more energy via renewables and people will simply expand demand to absorb it, in much the same way you can build more roads and car usage will expand to congest it.
But certainly I'm not saying we should stop building more renewables, I just think people will happily use fossil fuels and renewables as much as possible because cheaper energy allows for better standard of living.
Where exactly ? On the moon ? Because around here, (from central to eastern europe) i haven't seen any "strong growth in wind".
Methane (the primary component of natural gas) has a global warming potential 21 times higher than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period, though methane persists in the atmosphere for much less time (around a dozen years) than carbon dioxide (many decades).