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Re:A critical step to reduce climate change by IanCal on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:31AM (#19919741)
I guess it depends on the definition of 'a few percent' in what they said but I think you're misinterpreting it. They don't seem to be saying it wouldn't lower your emissions, they're claiming it's a small part of your emissions.

The change in that paper is ~2 tons/year, and average use in America is ~16 tons/year so about 1/8th. It depends if you think ~12% is 'a few percent' or not.

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Re:A critical step to reduce climate change by SkyBelow on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:19PM (#19921631)
>It depends if you think ~12% is 'a few percent' or not.

I find that people have no consistency in such matters. What counts as enough of a difference to care about seems to change upon the issue and just so happens to generally align with an individual's view of if an issue is worth worrying about or not.

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