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Planting a lot more trees will have a major impact on pollution reduction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18
by olivermarks 8y ago
Planting a lot more trees will have a major impact on pollution reduction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215002
Half the plastics on the planet were made in the last 13 years
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/plastic-age/533955/?fbclid=IwAR1ECQUKm07faBnDLM_9sfcZaR20HGqP_xnK8npknAYiZyeq1okVd-SyjoQ&single_page=true https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/plastic-...
EV transport is currently limited and unless solar, wind or hydro is used electricity has to be generated somewhere.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 8y agoHow is that an argument? You can plant tree, reduce plastics production AND switch to EV. For some reason, every time the case for the electrification of transport is presented, other legitimate, complementary causes are put forward as opposable. As if reducing emissions was a zero-sum game…
- olivermarks 8y agoWasn't really an argument against EV's, just an observation that plastics production is a major use of oil and a pollutant (EV's are mostly plastic and alloys for example) at all levels, while the tree planting reality will have a massive positive impact on pollution and seems to be getting overlooked as it is not commercially attractive to big industrialists.