‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis? | The bulk of global greenhouse gas emissions come from countries that are not democratic, and many big oil and gas exporters are also authoritarian

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1. Stop using fossil fuels in your personal life to as great an extent as possible and the problem takes care of itself.

   People don’t usually have a choice in who their electricity provider is, so if it’s coming from a coal-powered plant, you can’t cut that out unless you add solar panels to your home. But there’s a lot of discretionary choices people make. Driving an ICE vehicle, flying, taking cruises, etc. Anyone who rationalizes that they “have to” do things like this, or they have “no choice” in the matter because of [insert reason], is rationalizing destruction.

   And it’s not like climate scientists haven’t said this.

   *Many of us hi-emitters claim we’re structurally locked into the existing physical infrastructure, yet others around us have far lower emissions with the same physical infrastructure. Again, uncomfortable as it may be, for many of us hi-emitters, a large proportion of our emissions are discretionary.*

   [https://bsky.app/profile/kevinclimate.bsky.social/post/3lfi4trvujc2m](https://bsky.app/profile/kevinclimate.bsky.social/post/3lfi4trvujc2m)

   It’s no different than condemning the giant beef companies that are destroying the Amazon rainforest. The world keeps demanding more and more beef every year, and because most aren’t willing to reduce their consumption, someone is going to raise the cattle somewhere.

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