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Reducing all energy sources to the mminium doesn't change much... That's sounds strange because if we reduce energy, then, well, we emit less CO2. Am I missing

• IanCal 7y ago
  That doesn't have it reduce the energy, it's just shifting between them I think. So total energy use seems to remain the same, you're just changing where people get it.
  • lopmotr 7y ago
    Yes. An interesting effect of this is that subsidizing bio fuels makes climate change worse because it takes away from other renewables.
• mapleoin 7y ago
  CO2 is still in the atmosphere.
  • lucb1e 7y ago
    For those who would like to fix that, https://climeworks.com https://climeworks.com They seem to currently be the only reliable way of taking CO2 out of the air that is available to consumers. (I've got a subscription with them but am not vested in them in any other way. Well, other than for the survival of our current ecosystem.) You can also plant trees with a thousand and one different organisations, much cheaper than Climeworks per kilogram of CO2, but I haven't yet found one that (1) explains where this land comes from that somehow has no trees yet and yet can support them indefinitely and (2) claims the full-grown trees remain there indefinitely or are somehow prevented from releasing their CO2 again. I guess it's not that cheap anymore if you have to protect the forest for many decades from turning back into whatever it was before (maybe farmland?) and also have a liability after the main growth is over to care that it doesn't release it all back by dying or being burned.
    • DennisP 7y ago
      Thanks, I didn't know Climeworks was already letting people pay to sequester their emissions.