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If you're not serious about energy consumption, you're also not serious about climate change. Unfortunately consumer and business technology wants to go the oth
by lancesells 2y ago
If you're not serious about energy consumption, you're also not serious about climate change. Unfortunately consumer and business technology wants to go the other way.
- epistasis 2y agoClimate change fact #1: CO2 (and to some extent other GHG) is the cause of climate change. Climate change fact #2: energy consumption is not a cause of climate change, except for when it causes CO2 emission. Climate change fact #3: reduced CO2 emission will not stop climate change. Reducing energy usage is a losing climate strategy in three ways 1) it doesn't solve the problem, cutting emissions 50% does jack shit, we need to get to 0% emissions and then negative emissions. 2) It's politically ineffective because only some people and countries will actually reduce emissions. 3) It's political suicide because it validates false anti-climate change propaganda. 4) It's highly socially regressive because these dictates demand that the burden be placed mostly on developing countries. Reason #1 is enough to disqualify the "reduce energy usage" as a climate strategy, but really there's zero way to look at it and think that there's any validity. Please find better sources and stop spreading this counterproductive idea.
- scotty79 2y agoGetting rid of CO2 from the atmosphere will take a lot of power. Energy conservation is not the way to go.