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I think you're misunderstanding my lament. As always, "a lot of people helping a little accomplishes a little." We need people to be better educated about energ
by acidburnNSA 7y ago
I think you're misunderstanding my lament. As always, "a lot of people helping a little accomplishes a little." We need people to be better educated about energy systems so they can push or clean energy collectively. When a people has very limited understanding of their daily energy systems and impacts of their personal choices, how can they be expected to push the politicians to fight for the right things collectively?
Seeing strong environmentalist people choose natural gas kitchens and heating in a region that's 98% carbon-free from hydro, wind, and nuclear is a shame. They then also fail to push politicians on pricing the externalities of natural gas because they are personally invested in it being "clean burning" (which it is, but it's still super high carbon).
Collective action begins with personal understanding. If you skip this step, you get lots of large efforts to ban straws and plastic bags or to sue energy service companies while failing to pass carbon legislation. How is it the fossil energy service company's fault that people use fossil fuel all day to commute across town?