Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
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Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#2Is there an ordered list of what produces most pollution? What's at the top? Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"
Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#3Produces more CO2.
Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#4Is there an ordered list of what produces most pollution? What's at the top? Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"
Yes. Fossil fuels for power generation, followed by transportation and industry [1]
> Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"
Little bit but to seriously make an impact you might have to look for alternative sources of powering your life. But nevertheless every single bit helps. This climate change conundrum cannot be fixed without the entire planet committing to it.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#5One good thing the US and Canada does is to not use cement for houses ! It is somewhat negated by the terrible insulation in most homes in the US (and the fact that homes tend to last less long I guess). Does anyone have any data on how much gets emitted for house construction depending on the material ?
Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#6Is there an ordered list of what produces most pollution? What's at the top? Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"
One of the best lists is https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank
It's ranked in terms of low-hanging fruit ('these are the highest-impact changes we could make') rather than absolute harm, but the spirit is the same as the question you're asking.
Realistically, the only thing you can do as an individual is campaign for political change:
Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#7Is there an ordered list of what produces most pollution? What's at the top? Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"
Just do less of it, there is no way to offset anything.
Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#8Is there an ordered list of what produces most pollution? What's at the top? Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?"
Yes. Fossil fuels for power generation, followed by transportation and industry [1] > Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?" Little bit but to seriously make an impact you might have to look for alternative sources of powering your life. But nevertheless every single bit helps. This climate change conundrum cannot be fixed without the en…
The list you provide is missing some man made sources of CO2 and methane. It's just CO2 emissions from fuel combustion.
Meat production is almost as much as transportation, roughly 17%.
Re: Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World
#9One good thing the US and Canada does is to not use cement for houses ! It is somewhat negated by the terrible insulation in most homes in the US (and the fact that homes tend to last less long I guess). Does anyone have any data on how much gets emitted for house construction depending on the material ?
Planting trees in order to specifically harvest them for construction would actually count as a form of carbon sequestration, and although I doubt that even comes close to offsetting the carbon emitted by the rest of the construction process it might still make wood-frame construction one of the most relatively green ways to build a house. Log cabins actually have fantastic insulation properties, since the wood has enough thermal mass that it partially warms the house during the night and cools it during the day. Of course most wood-frame houses are nowhere close to using as much wood as an actual log cabin, but modern insulation techniques (especially regarding windows) are far from "terrible"; when I think bad insulation in the US, I think of the houses that were built in the 40s and 50s.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Fossil fuels for power generation, followed by transportation and industry [1] > Is there an easy way to answer the question "I just did environmentally bad thing X, now what can I do to offset that?" Little bit but to seriously make an impact you might have to look for alternative sources of powering your life. But nevertheless every single bit helps. This climate change conundrum cannot be fixed without the en…
The list you provide is missing some man made sources of CO2 and methane. It's just CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. Meat production is almost as much as transportation, roughly 17%.
> Meat production is almost as much as transportation, roughly 17%.
That 17% includes all transportation related to meat production. If meat was replaced by plant-based foods, not all of that transportation could be eliminated.