Re:1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks
by ttcbj on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:23PM
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Exactly this! There was a good TED talk by Hans Rosling saying, basically, people in developing economies want washing machines (just like you).
That is why I suspect the only solutions to climate change are:
* Develop an energy source which has a lower-cost and equal practicality to carbon-emitting sources, or
* Find a way to mitigate the effects of carbon emissions.
Otherwise, conservation in rich countries is just going to be replaced by consumption of the now cheaper oil/coal in developing ones.
I don't think it is realistic to ask people with far fewer conveniences (washing machines) to abandon their hopes of a better life by conserving (if people won't give up private jets, can you really expect much poorer people to give up more necessary conveniences?)
That is why I suspect the only solutions to climate change are:
* Develop an energy source which has a lower-cost and equal practicality to carbon-emitting sources, or
* Find a way to mitigate the effects of carbon emissions.
Otherwise, conservation in rich countries is just going to be replaced by consumption of the now cheaper oil/coal in developing ones.
I don't think it is realistic to ask people with far fewer conveniences (washing machines) to abandon their hopes of a better life by conserving (if people won't give up private jets, can you really expect much poorer people to give up more necessary conveniences?)