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The problem is, to make a difference you also need to get 7bn other people to do something...
by LatteLazy 5y ago
The problem is, to make a difference you also need to get 7bn other people to do something...
- clairity 5y agono, that’s a defeatist position promoted by polluting industries. eliminating the top 5%[0] of the most polluting power plants would make a significant (but not wholly sufficient) dent in the emissions problem. that’s on the order of changing the behavior of a few hundred people (not easy, but not as hard as literally everyone). [0]: https://www.fastcompany.com/90660435/just-5-of-power-plants-are-responsible-for-73-of-electricity-emissions https://www.fastcompany.com/90660435/just-5-of-power-plants-...
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- eldaisfish 5y agothis is 100% false. Multiple billions of your supposed 7 billion people doing nothing are living in squalor and poverty. Their carbon footprint is negligible today and for the foreseeable future. The people who need to do something and now are mostly in the developed world.