Let's have a look at France's emissions : https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/france Somehow, from 1973 they went from 10t C02 per capita to 4.8 t per capita in 2022. Their GDP at the same went from 264 Bn to ~2779 Bn https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/FRA/fra... Whatever mysterious method of C02 reduction they used should be investigated.
Nuclear power.
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#12Here’s the lead: taxation. Imagine that. People avoid pain more than gain pleasure, and people are sensitive to their wallets.
“By contrast, taxation is a notable exception in effectively causing large emission breaks alone. It stands out as the only policy instrument that achieves near equal or larger effect size as a stand-alone policy across all sectors.“
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#13Here’s the lead: taxation. Imagine that. People avoid pain more than gain pleasure, and people are sensitive to their wallets. “By contrast, taxation is a notable exception in effectively causing large emission breaks alone. It stands out as the only policy instrument that achieves near equal or larger effect size as a stand-alone policy across all sectors.“
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#15So I recently learned about the logarithmic saturation phenomena for CO2, as well as the impact on significantly increased food supply with increased CO2 levels.
Are there any studies that prove these policy interventions will have any practical benefit going forward?
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#16The seaweed pellets they add to cows food that eliminated most of their emissions must be the most ingenious climate policy and breakthrough. Before these were invented we were looking at a situation where meat consumption (or at least beef) may have to be phased out.
The rapid development of battery technology must be a close second. I remember as a kid in the 1990s it was difficult to get good rechargeable batteries to power a RC toy car. They were often huge battery packs that would over heat, last a few minutes per charge and takes ages to power up. Now we have people carrying cars driving hundreds of kilometres on quick charging batteries.
Re: Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions
#17Let's have a look at France's emissions : https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/france Somehow, from 1973 they went from 10t C02 per capita to 4.8 t per capita in 2022. Their GDP at the same went from 264 Bn to ~2779 Bn https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/FRA/fra... Whatever mysterious method of C02 reduction they used should be investigated.
Too bad neither Europe nor the US seems capable of building reactors at reasonable cost. Even China which is building reactors the fastest is only projected to have nuclear account for single digit percentages of its electric consumption for decades.
Re: Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions
#18Let's have a look at France's emissions : https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/france Somehow, from 1973 they went from 10t C02 per capita to 4.8 t per capita in 2022. Their GDP at the same went from 264 Bn to ~2779 Bn https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/FRA/fra... Whatever mysterious method of C02 reduction they used should be investigated.
Too bad neither Europe nor the US seems capable of building reactors at reasonable cost. Even China which is building reactors the fastest is only projected to have nuclear account for single digit percentages of its electric consumption for decades.
Wasn’t there news not long ago that China has been building solar power (peak capacity) with an equivalent power of five nuclear power plants per week? Even accounting for much lower cumulative output, this is far more than they have in the pipeline for nuclear power.
Re: Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions
#19The seaweed pellets they add to cows food that eliminated most of their emissions must be the most ingenious climate policy and breakthrough. Before these were invented we were looking at a situation where meat consumption (or at least beef) may have to be phased out. The rapid development of battery technology must be a close second. I remember as a kid in the 1990s it was difficult to get good rechargeable batterie…
Is the seaweed actually in use beyond some test farms or research herds?
Re: Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions
#20The seaweed pellets they add to cows food that eliminated most of their emissions must be the most ingenious climate policy and breakthrough. Before these were invented we were looking at a situation where meat consumption (or at least beef) may have to be phased out. The rapid development of battery technology must be a close second. I remember as a kid in the 1990s it was difficult to get good rechargeable batterie…
>meat consumption (or at least beef) may have to be phased out.
Subject to the realities of global politics, it's the habitability of the equator and the low incidence of tropical diseases in the Southern US that would have been phased out.