> But when you dig into the details, it seems like the regulation may not have much effect on climate change at all. When Vancouver banned natural gas hookups

> But when you dig into the details, it seems like the regulation may not have much effect on climate change at all. When Vancouver banned natural gas hookups in new buildings in 2022 the justification was that they pointed to the fact that 54% of CO2 emissions in the city came from home heating. The next biggest source was transportation, I think 39%ish. It's a clear reasonable move, as just like when you're trying to improve performance of a computer program, you start with the biggest numbers and see if you can make it smaller. Presumably other cities in areas that use natural gas for home heating as much as Vancouver are also seeing home heating be a very large percentage of their CO2 emissions. If we can trivially, simply through some minor regulations cut over time the emissions of every city in NA by 50% that's clearly a massive improvement and well worth doing? If this is not worth doing in an effort to tackle the climate change problem I do not know what is. To me this feels like one of the easiest low hanging fruit things we can do there is.