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Awesome to see more and more folks putting their energy into, well, energy. Have you considered how much good individuals can do by making better choices for t
by mazer_r 8y ago
Awesome to see more and more folks putting their energy into, well, energy.
Have you considered how much good individuals can do by making better choices for the environment versus how much good we can do as a society by implementing things like a carbon tax? Many (most?) of the barriers to dealing with anthropogenic climate change can only be overcome with sufficient political will. It might be better long-term to urge people to vote for the "right" policies than to fall into the trap that individuals can fix the world's climate through lifestyle changes alone.
Bill Gates outlines the problem here:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-climate-change https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-clima...
- ryangeftmangold 8y agoThanks for the response. I do think about the issues you're touching on. While it didn't make it into this post because of HN character limitations, part of the “What’s Currently in Place” section on the page I linked to includes: "Advisors that include one of the most noteworthy climate scientists in the world, the firm that ran data for President Obama's and Bernie Sanders' Presidential campaigns and a marketing strategist who developed a "primal branding" framework that's used by companies like Apple and Nike and YouTube" And while energy was an obvious starting point for me, the aim would be to make ANYTHING that has an individual / consumer touchpoint and can significantly lessen the effects of climate change one or two or three degrees easier... and then scale it.