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> What I don't understand is why this is so controversial. Our attention is a finite resource too. When some issue is in the news daily and obsessed about by a
by lazyjones 7y ago
> What I don't understand is why this is so controversial.
Our attention is a finite resource too. When some issue is in the news daily and obsessed about by a whole bunch of interest groups, from European-style liberals who have new taxes in mind (Macron) to the radical left who want us to live a frugal, Eastern-Bloc lifestyle, while we all see no real effects by this CO2 monster on our daily lives, it's bound to meet some resistance.
> I don't see why we shouldn't transition to renewable energy asap anyway.
Germany is transitioning to renewables quickly and has put a huge burden on households with high electricity prices (€0.30 per KWh average, even affecting EV adoption after some sensationalist "EV more expensive than Diesel fuel" themed articles) while the industry gets it cheap. Is this reasonable?
> Why would it be a bad thing to get rid of air pollution?
This is a great idea, but it has nothing to do with CO2 (= not air pollution in the usual sense, we all exhale it). I wish we could invest 1/10 of the efforts currently underway against CO2 in just getting rid of pollution in cities - from heating (with "renewable" wood), cars, industry, ships, airplanes (where's the CO2 tax and why do these things happen? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6993173/Actress-Emma-Thompson-spotted-carbon-spewing-BA-plane-jetting-New-York.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6993173/Actress-Emm...).