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Climate change doesn't care if I use my 1kWh for gaming on a console, using dryer, A/C or computing digits of pi which have already been computed because I want
by comboy 6y ago
Climate change doesn't care if I use my 1kWh for gaming on a console, using dryer, A/C or computing digits of pi which have already been computed because I wanted to do it on my super inefficient old computer.
There are many ways to mitigate climate change but I don't think that telling people what should they do with electricity is the way to go. Perhaps focus more on how the energy gets produced, not how it is consumed.
- effie 6y ago> I don't think that telling people what should they do with electricity is the way to go. If the advice is sound, maybe we should be telling people about it. For example, we could recommend to replace cheap ineffective ACs with effective but expensive heat pumps and some small percentage of people will do that. But this won't do much to mitigate CO2 production. AC energy consumption isn't a major driver of CO2 pollution, fossil-fueled transport and coal/gas power plants are.