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The biggest impact most people can have on climate change is not having kids. Think of all the energy they'll use in their lifetime(s). You can prevent all of that.
The biggest impact most people can have on climate change is not having kids. Think of all the energy they'll use in their lifetime(s). You can prevent all of that.
What if that kid would happen to be someone like Elon Musk one day? Have you considered that scenario?
The biggest impact most people can have on climate change is not having kids. Think of all the energy they'll use in their lifetime(s). You can prevent all of that.
This isn't the first time you've posted this. Here is the response I decided not to post last time. You will probably never write a magic thousand lines of code for this. You'll probably have a far greater impact if you do a few simple things we should all be doing anyway: * Turn off lights you aren't using. * Turn your air conditioning up or down by a few degrees. * Turn your water heater down a few degrees. For com…
The only thing that is going to do anything about climate collapse (climate change is too wishy-washy for such a serious topic) is leaving the carbon in the ground or pulling it out of the air.
The biggest impact most people can have on climate change is not having kids. Think of all the energy they'll use in their lifetime(s). You can prevent all of that.
The biggest impact most people can have on climate change is not having kids. Think of all the energy they'll use in their lifetime(s). You can prevent all of that.
This isn't the first time you've posted this. Here is the response I decided not to post last time. You will probably never write a magic thousand lines of code for this. You'll probably have a far greater impact if you do a few simple things we should all be doing anyway: * Turn off lights you aren't using. * Turn your air conditioning up or down by a few degrees. * Turn your water heater down a few degrees. For com…
If I turn my water heater down I'll need to turn the hot tap on more when I have a shower, thereby using more not-so-heated water, resulting about the same amount of energy used.
Use your laptop's battery rather than leaving it plugged in all the time.
This one also doesn't work, because charging and discharging a battery results in energy lost as heat. Rechargeable batteries aren't 100% efficient.
And dimming your displays? I wouldn't worry about that, the handful of watt-hours I'd save a year doing that is grossly undone by forgetting something at the supermarket and driving back to get it.
Cycle or walk more, catch the bus / train / tram once a week, and as others have pointed out reduce consumption of animal products.
I reckon the only way to have any substantial impact is to influence others to change their behaviour / help drive political and economic change.
* our global economy needs further regulation to bake the cost of externalities (CO2 pollution) into the economy. Without a carbon tax or similar mechanism we get what we have today: polluting activities (on both supply / demand side) are effectively subsidised, so there is no incentive not to do them. We need to lobby for this.
* some in the climate movement talk about the "climate emergency" and want to phrase the response as some kind of world-war era national economic mobilisation. I think this makes sense, but this will only happen politically if a majority of the population think there is an emergency.
* someone else in the thread has already mentioned Jevons paradox - where improving the resource efficiency of a process in a market can result in an increase in overall consumption of the resource. Separately from that I think demand reduction should be a clear win. What can you do to reduce demand for energy?