Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)

Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by DoingIsLearning on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:26AM (#32408390)

> consumer demand drives industry

And industry lobby drives government policy and regulation.

Industry apologism will not help us move towards mitigating climate crisis effects.

Industry has externalized most of their environmental costs, this needs to change ASAP.

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Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by tekknik on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:28AM (#32421898)

What is your solution for bulk transport, last mile, etc?

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Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by DoingIsLearning on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:02AM (#32422417)

You are asking the wrong question. _Total_ Road transport emissions is 11.9% of CO2 emissions. It is still a lot but it will probably be the hardest to get rid of due to the whole car-centric infrastructure.

- Energy use in buildings is 17.5% of CO2 emissions

- Energy use in Industry is 24.4% of CO2 Emissions, The steel industry alone accounts for 7% of global emissions of CO2

The _number_one_priority_ is to force out Coal and Methane Gas from the Energy production sector and heating. That alone would cut global emissions by more than 40%.

This is a gigantic step because it solely depends on government energy policy, Infrastructure investiment, and also requires us to advance against an extremely embedded lobby of both Coal and Oil&Gas.

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