Action on climate change faces new threat: The doomers who think it’s too late to act

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1. More hopium/copium garbage

2. I’ll ignore the science and just look at the logistics.

   If you count the individual animals raised for food every year (and you should, since they add up to ~20% of emissions), there are tens of billions of sources of emissions in the world, perhaps even as high as +100 billion. Each source is insignificant in isolation but meaningful because it contributes to the whole.

   Some of those sources are systemic and outside the control of individuals; grid energy, agricultural equipment, the supply chain (cargo ships, trains, big rigs, etc.), roads, and more.

   Some of those sources are in the control of individuals; our choice of vehicle, the amount of animal products we consume, the amount we fly or take cruises, our home heating (furnace vs. heat pump), and more.

   Every single source needs to go away quickly and permanently. No one can rationalize that “my contribution is insignificant” because if one person (or company, or government) says it, everyone can.

   Every person/company/government needs to give up those sources voluntarily. Because if individuals are forced to give up things they enjoy, there’s a right wing party waiting in the wings who’ll say, “Pish posh! This climate change thing is overblown! You don’t have to give up anything!” And they’ll get plenty of votes. If one country chooses not to give them up, other countries will point at them and say, “Why do we have to give them up when they won’t?”

   And if something can’t be converted to an emissions-free version (like aviation as we know it, which is almost certain never to go battery due to energy density issues), it has to go away without a clean replacement.

   100% cooperation.

3. It’s never to late to act. It is too late to save humanity.

4. doomers all over the place

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