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Respectfully I actually think your comment highlights THE core problem with emissions. Climate change is a huge complex problem with 1001 causes and each cause
by LatteLazy 3y ago
Respectfully I actually think your comment highlights THE core problem with emissions.
Climate change is a huge complex problem with 1001 causes and each cause has 1001 possible solutions. But people all pick a single solution. And then insist on it. Renewable people won't support nuclear, nuclear people won't support biomass, biomass people won't support renewables. Ditto reductioneers and public transport enthusiasts and anti-car people. And that is just electricity for car transport, that offers nothing to air travel or construction or agriculture.
So everyone sits on their arse saying "it's not MY fault, I recycled a tin can once!".
Everyone is saying the same thing: I will only support things others don't and unless I get my own way we should do nothing.
So we have, as a species, all agreed to do nothing.
But everyone wants to pretend THEY and THEIR solution would have worked, and THEY are the good guy.
- wkat4242 3y agoVery well put. The root of the problem is far from simple and neither is the solution. I think people are also looking too much for a magic solution that allows them to keep going as is. Like CO2 capture. If we actually build this in quantities that actually make a dent in emissions, we'll be mining half the world for materials to make the installations and power them and ruin the other half to place them and store the captured carbon. It's just never going to be viable especially until we solve the emissions problem first. But it's the promise of a magic solution that keeps it on the map.