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Lesser consumption will.
by Santosh83 8y ago
Lesser consumption will.
- jerkstate 8y agoAnd less trade with countries who use mostly carbon intensive energy sources
- rusureabootthat 8y agoYeah we should cut out China and India and all developing countries!
- gdy 8y agoThe US has almost the highest per capita CO2 emission rate followed closely by Canada. The countries higher on that list are American Middle-Eastern allies and several tiny nations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
- barry-cotter 8y agoPoverty for all! Smaller houses and apartments, heated less, wearing more clothes in winter and less AC in summer, all combined with a collapse in international travel. That’s a real vote winner. Technological solutions, megadeaths to reduce consumption or dealing with climate change. These are the only realistic options. China and India aren’t staying poor.
- fastbeef 8y agoYou leave Dave Mustaine out of this!
- Scarblac 8y agoIMO the choice is between choosing to reduce consumption or being forced to by megadeaths, probably we only have a little choice in the degree in which either happens. Technology may help a little with the first.
- solotronics 8y agoI just don't see how anyone will choose to lower consumption even to save themselves. Just look at how China is cannibalizing their environment for short term growth.
- PeterisP 8y agoAt least some people consider that it's plausible to choose between other people far away reducing consumption or those other people far away experiencing megadeaths. I mean, megadeaths in poor third world coastal regions won't necessarily force people in New York to reduce consumption. If (for example) sea level rise starts threatening New York directly, then it can afford Netherlands-style solutions that somewhat mitigate the local consequences.
- benj111 8y agoCompare the US and Western Europe. Europe has lower Co2 emissions, smaller houses, and still maintains quality of life. No doubt you could go much further along that road. And what's wrong with wearing more clothes in the winter?!
- hyperdunc 8y agoPopulations tend to saturate their environments by increasing both overall numbers and resource consumption per capita. Increased efficiency and new ways of living can only offset this. If you and everyone in your country decreases their consumption and number of offspring then the slack will taken up by others until the environment once again bears as much as it can.