Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings
by maxerickson on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:55PM
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You're shoving words in my mouth. I don't care about bag taxes, I think it's stupid we pay so much attention to them and ignore things that are far more harmful. And we do ignore them, so it's not simply a case of being able to do both, the bags really do seem to be capturing attention from more pressing issues.
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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings
by KirinDave on Friday April 22, 2016 @09:18PM
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Why shouldn't we pay attention to them as well as the larger things? Especially in America where the harsh reality is were going to have to change our lifestyles a lot over the next 50 years, boiling the frog is probably the best way to keep everyone calm.
I mean, water alone is going to be a major issue for California.
Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings
by maxerickson on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:15PM
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I think it is pretty clear that energy is going to get cheaper and cleaner. This helps a lot with household water use (agricultural volumes are still pretty expensive).
Figuring out how to make the benefits of the growing economy more widely available seems like a pretty big problem, but I don't think that consumption in the US will have to decrease in any meaningful way.