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You missed a few: We also can't have anything new made out of steel, iron, or cement. And we can't have heating or cooling in our houses or businesses: https

• matthewdgreen 2y ago
  Low carbon cement and steel are absolutely possible, as is low-carbon heating and cooling. But it requires major (governmental) technological investment and a commitment to deploying the technologies.
  • xscott 2y ago
    Lots of things are possible, but the person I replied to seems to think that driving, flying, meat, and electricity are the problem. If you could magically convince every person in every country to eliminate those, you'd get: Road Transport: 11.9% Aviation: 1.9% Livestock: 5.8% Building Electrical: 17.5% These numbers are taken from the chart I linked above, and that's aggressively rounding up in favor of their argument. I'm including things like trucks delivering food, all flights for any purpose, chicken and pork in addition to beef, and commercial buildings in addition to residential. Add it all up and it only comes to 37.1% of the total. In other words, the most charitable interpretation of their statements and it hits 1/3 of the problem. And again, that's assuming you got every person in every country to conform. It's absurd to believe this will happen, and I don't hear anyone knowledgeable saying that eliminating 1/3 of the problem is sufficient.