Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption

Re:Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consu... by VBprogrammer on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:44AM (#17774110)

While I whole heatedly applaud your efforts; reducing this down to carbon emissions alone is so completely ridiculous as far as logical arguments go.

There are a whole host of negative externalities involved in driving a car that riding a bike (or 4) just don't even come close to.

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Re:Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consu... by Tade0 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @09:46AM (#17774538)

You're absolutely right and I wouldn't suggest anybody to ditch their bike in favor of a car just because one factor supports this notion.

But this exercise shows one thing: when it comes to reducing our carbon footprint personal transport is actually a relatively low hanging fruit. Same for electricity really.

Food seems to be the hard problem here. I heard somewhere that a safe level of emissions is one metric tonne of CO2 per capita annually. Vegans do 1.5t.

Maybe it will get lower once transportation is cleaned up? I don't know.

EDIT: To be clear - my original write-up was a little bit in jest. This one is my serious position.

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