You just won't say the real people who are to blame. You want to lay the blame on all people equally
80% of 0.001% is a rounding error. scale matters. just because a first-world country of 5M can do something does not make this attainable for the other 99.999% of the human population.
> Renewables in Europe are still moving at great speed
imo, nuclear (not fusion, mind you) + electric, is the only realistic way out of the energy mess.
they didnt get your message in Nigeria
I would also suggest it’s more akin to blaming drug users instead of drug dealers, but whatever metaphor floats your boat.
> addicted to convenience, low prices, diversity in options, and unlimited availability
applies just as much to Norway as to other rich countries. Maybe not in exactly the same way as in the US, but in their own way.
The idea that Norway holds some sort of moral high ground with respect to fossil fuels is offensive.
They at the very LEAST deserve the moral high ground of largely distributing the economic benefits of those fossil fuels to their citizens rather than to a dozen billionaires while their nation's infrastructure becomes dilapidated
But we can change our behavior by showing ourselves less ads. And that would solve a lot of other problems too.
i have uBO chrome extension installed, so i'm doing pretty good by that metric!
Not every change we need to make will benefit people. More often they will require more work, more resources, or less enjoyment at rhe individual level (recycling, not driving certain types of vehicle).
This is a thinly veiled dig at Elon musk. It's so weird that you think what he's doing is the problem, with his efforts bringing about electric cars earlier than what would have happened.
He might be a loud mouth jerk, but surely he's not symbolic of the real problem here?
Government subsidies and his engineers brought that about. Not Elon freaking musk. Stop drinking his kool aid.
I don't think Elon is a saint, there's plenty not to like. But I think that you're so angered by him (probably drinking an alternative brand coolaid) that you're willing to discount any positive contribution, action, or utterance from Elon. Usually people aren't all good or all bad, as much as we'd like the world to be that simple.
what do you think $44 billion in climate lobbying would look like?
teslas still have to be manufactured. he probably would have a had a greater climate impact if he purchased everyone on earth the same model of bicycle that can be be repaired/reused indefinitely.
we should be trying to remove cars, reduce production, and replace it with public transit, etc. but that's neither cool nor profitable; electric cars are both of those things.
electric energy storage, on the other hand, is useful. so making batteries cheap is a good thing, and tesla definitely helped that a lot.
Now if only they were affordable by the masses....
Elon Musk, the guy who floats insane ideas like tunneling and hyperloop to derail public transit projects?
people won't change. they are addicted to convenience, low prices, diversity in options, and unlimited availability. which is also great for corporate profits.
as a species, humans plan and invest very little beyond our own lifetimes. but we're just animals after all. all the talk about becoming an interplanetary (mars) species for our own survival has to be the most absurd statement that can be made to dismiss the very real problems we should solve here first. but billionaires need an excuse to play Tony Stark.
it's not cool or profitable to do the boring work of unfucking ourselves.