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There was a good Ask Reddit question recently that really drove home how the "use less electricity, travel less, eat less meat" solution is completely unrealist
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
There was a good Ask Reddit question recently that really drove home how the "use less electricity, travel less, eat less meat" solution is completely unrealistic when it comes to what is needed to arrest climate change. The question asked why, during 2020, when there were huge lockdowns around the world, with gargantuan portions of traffic completely eliminated, that overall CO2 emissions only fell 6%
Think about that. To arrest climate change we really need to bring CO2 emissions down nearly 100%, and the greatest worldwide economic pause in living memory only brought it down 6%.
The only thing that can possibly solve this problem is improved technology.