Every car switches to electric -> this is happening, but it takes 5-10 years to phase out a car. If 100% of new car sales are electric, we’ll have to wait until 2030. But we’re not at 100% yet. So we’ll probably only get there around 2040-2050.
Every house switches to non-gas water heating and climate control -> this one takes even longer, 10-20 years to phase out. It’s probably easier to get to 100% clean new sales
Every industrial process switches -> I don’t know enough to even speculate but this sounds like an even longer CAPEX cycle
Every plane & ship switches -> we don’t have the tech for this figured out yet. Ships are probably one of the biggest things we should switch over ASAP.
Every powerplant switches to nuclear/solar/wind/hydro: another multi-decade project.
I want all of the above, if only for cleaner air for health reasons, and because I’m an engineer and nuclear + electric seems more elegant. But it will take a very long time.
Fossil fuel companies knew about climate change and deliberately spent decades obfuscating the issue and warping discourse.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-cl...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
This is unfortunately not even a euphemism. If a killing is hard to precisely attribute to a single person, people don't categorize it that way. But that's exactly what it is.
Aka we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas :/
Seriously. To this day we're letting fossil fuel companies get away with literal murder. Acting like change is impossible is a view those companies actively promote. Don't fall for it.