Posted on 04/04/2022 1:09:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Individuals along with economy-wide efficiencies can make a major difference in the drive to avert the worst of global warming, UN climate experts say, estimating that sharp cuts to demand for energy-guzzling services could slash emissions up to 70 percent by 2050.
You can change an internal combustion engine car to an electric one ("improve"), or even "shift" your daily commute to cycling or walking.
The biggest potential for avoidance is reducing long-haul flights. If people took fewer long distance flights and took the train where possible, overall aviation emissions could be reduced by 10 to 40 percent by 2040.
Meanwhile, increasing energy efficiency in homes and other buildings takes first place in the "improve" category.
And the most important "shift" you can make is to adopt a plant-based diet. But becoming a vegetarian or even vegan would have less of an emissions impact than cutting out one long-haul flight a year.
Most people in the world never take long-haul flights in the first place and do not have access to nutritious food.
Billions of people have a carbon footprint far below nine tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
For example, the average carbon footprint per inhabitant in Afghanistan is less than one tonne, according to the report, while in most western developed nations it is well over 10 tonnes.
And within countries there can also be an enormous split between the lavish energy consumption of the rich and the meagre carbon footprint of poorer people.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Ban cars and trucks in DC and NYC to save the planet!
Plant more trees and quit whining about raking the leaves up, which is the number one reason people give me for why they don’t plant more trees.
They are too lazy to rake.
Yes definitely fly less and go vegan. More meat for me, on flights with more elbow room.
I like to tell woke hipsters that the best thing they can do to help the environment is to not have kids and eat their pets before going vegan. Strangely, they only have a problem with eating their pets. Go figure.
We all going to be living back in caves before this sh*t all said and done with the dumbass Enviro Climate Change fanatics, at least till the discover some unknown endangered species living in those caves then we all pretty much fraked. /s
bugs are yummy
Their heroes own private jets. And drive in convoys of SUVs.
I burned wood in my wood burning stove all winter. I trust that helped the cause.
Spewing evil carbon...Greta gonna getcha....
Right, wood isn’t a fossil fuel. Except petrified wood, and that’s so hard to light.
You’d be an idiot to diminish your lifestyle one iota just so the planet can support more stupid and irresponsible people (read: socialists). If that’s what’s waiting for us the prudent course of action would be to extinct ourselves NOW and leave copies of 2001 Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes lying about for the chimps to read once they get around to it.
Buy a big SUV...
Take many flyaway vacations..
Eat more fast food and steak...
Sing it loud and be proud..
I have lots of trees.
I cut my lawn with a riding mower that emits tons of CO2..
In the fall I hook up my gas powered leaf vacuum to my rider and just suck up all the leaves.
Am I helping the environment?
No way I’m going to diminish my lifestyle so the globalist elites can continue to jet around the world in the manner to which they are accustomed while the rest of mankind faces privation and starvation..
If those leftists/globalists/elites are serious about what they claim, let them lead by example and make the first sacrifices themselves instead of exempting themselves from what they are so eager to impose on us.
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