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The more renewable generation capacity gets built, the smaller the CO2 footprint of things made in factories served by it. At some point, almost everything will
by ncmncm 4y ago
The more renewable generation capacity gets built, the smaller the CO2 footprint of things made in factories served by it. At some point, almost everything will have no carbon footprint.
So, if you want to reduce your carbon footprint, invest in building out renewables. Everything downstream of it will automatically contribute less to the terrifyingly fast approaching climate catastrophe.
It seems just barely possible that the catastrophe can be averted before global civilization collapses. Humans would survive that, but not solar panel, chip, or car factories.
- kzrdude 4y agoWhy would civilization collapse? Do you mean that major countries will collapse?
- ncmncm 4y agoGlobal civilization is intimately interconnected. Any serious upset would wipe out the industries most dependent upon it. The first to go would be everything high-tech -- chips, aircraft, cars. New car manufacturies like in the 20th century might be got up from the scraps. But mass starvation would ensue, leading to huge wars that probably would quickly turn nuclear. The most likely proximate causes of collapse would be ocean ecosystem collapse caused by acidification, eliminating the current protein source billions of people depend on, or mass migration from newly uninhabitable areas. We see hints of both already.