Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

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Post by Bender » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII
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Post by jedberg » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:44 PM UTC

And personal savings are way up. But it's unlikely either of these trends will hold after 2021.

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Post by badRNG » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

And personal savings are way up. But it's unlikely either of these trends will hold after 2021.

Source? Anecdotally most folks I know have had to burn through their savings after living off of unemployment or going through underemployment this past year.

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Post by youeseh » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:48 PM UTC

Sounds like de-centralized power generation, maximizing remote work, and delivery vehicles powered by electricity and hydrogen is the way forward.

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Post by flatline » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:50 PM UTC

badRNG wrote: post #3

jedberg wrote: post #2

And personal savings are way up. But it's unlikely either of these trends will hold after 2021.

Source? Anecdotally most folks I know have had to burn through their savings after living off of unemployment or going through underemployment this past year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/246268/personal-savings-...

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Post by cblconfederate » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:52 PM UTC

Yeah but people already miss being stuck in traffic and their daily commute so it's not going to last

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Post by airza » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

flatline wrote: post #5

badRNG wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source? Anecdotally most folks I know have had to burn through their savings after living off of unemployment or going through underemployment this past year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/246268/personal-savings-...

when your disposable income is zero, doesn't that drive the statistics way out of wack?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

And personal savings are way up. But it's unlikely either of these trends will hold after 2021.

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Post by alexfromapex » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC

Don't forget about the cows eating seaweed development, that will be huge for the climate too

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Post by savanaly » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC

Is it possible that Sars-cov-2 epidemic will eventually save more lives than it cost, through the long term and short term effects of decreased pollution and climate change? If that's true, we have to entertain the theory that the virus was purposefully initiated by a time-traveler charged with averting climate catastrophe through the only means possible.