Yep. Going to need to end that too.
Yes, we’ve wanted too long for zero impact.
We haven’t waited too long to still end up with a habitable planet. Failing to act now puts that at risk.
Hardly; it’s largely a matter of how quickly we phase out fossil fuels. Wait longer, and you get to scrap equipment before the ends of its normal useful life instead of getting full use out of what you pay for.
The sooner we act, the less drastic the measures needed are. That’s the reality of it, and something I’ll keep on pushing for.
The fossil fuels industry funds a big chunk of their patronage machine. So no surprises.
I’m not saying that either. But we are at the point where it takes people showing neighbors the changes that everybody needs to make.
They’re mostly not blasting it directly; they’re selling fossil fuels for others to blast. Changing how you commute or heat your home helps change social norms around those and lowers the rate of emissions
No; it’s a fairly distant thing with there being some aircraft design happening.
It’s not a “next tuesday thing”
Ammonia, steel, and some petrochemicals could be moved much sooner.
Ideally, would be both. And it likely means getting Congress on board.
They’re smoking money. The raison d’être of the Heritage Foundation is to promote the interests of the wealthy over those of the rest of us.
There’s a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.
It does, but importantly, it’s fiction. So it raises some (but not all ) of the relevant issues, but doesn’t necessarily present a realistic view of how things will play out.
More would involve some serious spoilers.
You don’t need to name-call here. It’s actually important to not just require that everybody do stuff, but have some people go first to make the case that it works well.
I can’t control your spending, but it’s a really effective outreach tool.
Sulfur dioxide added to the stratosphere might cool the world for a few years. They’re selling offsets though, so they give people permission to add CO₂ which causes the world to warm for hundreds of thousands of years
There’s a real problem with that.
Yep, but district heating and cooling is rare; it exists in a few major cities and a few university and corporate campuses.
Those are important, but the act of doing things like installing solar panels, or a heat pump changes minds — and when you do it, others around you see and imitate.
It’s fairly expensive to generate electricity by burning stuff, even biomass. A decent wind, solar, and storage rollout will displace most of it quite cheaply.
The corn ethanol thing is likely to continue in the US as long as we’re still burning gasoline in cars.