How fast do people have to buy EVs and heat pumps to avoid the worst effects of climate change?

by silence7

11 comments
  1. Assuming developing nations, corporations and governments and their militaries, actually do something to reduce their huge contribution to every global tipping point ..

    Carry on .

  2. Just as fast as bleeping possible

    The climate crisis isn’t the mother-of-all-issues, it’s the mother-of-*everything*

    That said, for longterm sustainability market penetration of heat pumps and EV cars is just scratching the surface. There’s a whole ocean of other things we also have to do just as fast as bleeping possible.

  3. I don’t think we can buy our way out of this, lol…

    What preposterous framing.

  4. EVs and heat pumps aren’t the solution, so it doesn’t matter if we adopt them tomorrow, we will only have decelerated, not stopped or reversed course.

  5. BRO. im already on it, i have 20 teslas in my garage, i figured ive saved the planet at least 2 years from dying of thirst

  6. My understanding is eating meat contributes more to climate change than driving gas engines and furnaces. We could all go meatless for one day a week to start out, eventually become plant stong and eat 80% of your calories from plants.

  7. Yeah residential energy use is peanuts compared to industrial and farming and freight use. The whole global economic system runs on energy and fossil fuels are still the cheapest option per unit of energy. We need to expand electricity generation drastically so electricity prices come down. Then industrial and farming sectors will be motivated to ditch fossil fuels because better profits. They don’t care/will never care about the planet, just profits so that is where the focus should be.

  8. It would help if governments helped more to fund new technologies.

    Instead they are still getting massive amounts of profits from fossil fuels.

    We need some scientists to take the lead, not corrupt politicians.

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