• @joelthelion
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    910 months ago

    And yet they are part of the obvious low hanging fruit for reducing emissions

    • @Maalus
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      110 months ago

      Are they obvious? If they account for 2.5%, shouldn’t the focus be on something that doesn’t produce an emotional response (i.e. planes burn so much fuel! They bad for environment!) But is a bigger contributor to polution?

      Ships come to mind. Biggest 5 polute as much as all cars on earth. Yet car electrification is brough on constantly in the discourse, when using bunker fuel on ships is met wirh silence

      • @joelthelion
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        110 months ago

        They are obvious because they are rarely irreplaceable. We can live without mass tourism and fast deliveries.

        • @Maalus
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          110 months ago

          I mean, we can also live with the 2.5% polution they cause

          • @joelthelion
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            10 months ago

            Not really. People in developed countries need to divide their emissions by approximately ten times. Every little bit helps. And we should start with the easy ones.