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For now, it's true that we should focus on low hanging fruits like energy production and transportation. For them, we know what to do and some of them already h
by summerlight 5y ago
For now, it's true that we should focus on low hanging fruits like energy production and transportation. For them, we know what to do and some of them already have viable technologies. Perhaps we can achieve 80~90% of the goal by focusing on carbon reduction specifically optimized for those industries.
But what do we do next when we're running out of these low hanging goals? It's more of death by a thousand cuts spanning across every industries you can ever imagine. And we've had a long, hard time to make politics work even on a very few number of those obvious low hanging fruits and it's still dysfunctional... Political will is a limited resource and we cannot really waste them on efforts with negligible impacts.
This is why we need to prepare more general and economically scalable solutions that directly deal with carbon emission itself. Keep in mind that we're not trying to handle all of carbon emission problems with carbon capture. It's more of an auxiliary one on top of highly optimized carbon reduction solutions.
- tuatoru 5y ago> But what do we do next when we're running out of these low hanging goals? Housing insulation retrofits next, and then metro-area roading and zoning reform to heavily encourage walking, with neighborhood shops, cafes, and communal spaces every few streets, and public transport to get between neighborhoods. The first hangs lower than restructuring built-up areas, true. The second has great public health benefits though. But I agree about political will. The political way to deal with climate change is not in policy documents, it's to produce policy documents.