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It's the opposite IMHO. Reducing emissions directly will never work because of the Jevons Paradox[0] (at least for CO2 - crazy-high-CO2-equivalent-pollutants ar
by snthd 4y ago
It's the opposite IMHO.
Reducing emissions directly will never work because of the Jevons Paradox[0] (at least for CO2 - crazy-high-CO2-equivalent-pollutants are something else).
The only thing that matters is preventing extraction of fossil fuels in the first place.
That's why the fossil fuel industry promoted the idea of "carbon footprints", and why Adtech make their datacenters renewable - greenwashing their business that makes money selling the whole economy of fossil-fuel derived stuff, including flights and the fossil fuel industry's actual propaganda[1][2].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
[1] https://www.clientearth.org/projects/the-greenwashing-files/ https://www.clientearth.org/projects/the-greenwashing-files/
[2] https://stopfundingheat.info/greenwash-dog/ https://stopfundingheat.info/greenwash-dog/
- twic 4y agoWhy on earth would the Jevon paradox apply to CO2, an output of industrial processes which can be disposed of for free, not an input?
- kelipso 4y agoYou reduce your travel, presumably for the purpose of reducing jet fuel usage. A few things can happen. 1) Someone else buys the plane ticket anyway, due to availability or reduced ticket price, jet fuel usage remains the same. 2) The plane ride got cancelled due to low number of passengers, replaced with another plane ride, total fuel used by airline remains the same. 3) Jet fuel gets cheaper or more available, so the fuel you thought you saved gets bought for another use, total fuel use remains the same.