Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ...
by avmich on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:54PM
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I disagree, but I don't think this is a good platform to list arguments and supporting explanations. I've tried to write a longer post, but explanations are too long to be sufficient.
https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitte...
She is most likely in the 90% percentile not the 10% percentile. Which is my point. We shouldn't look to people with huge carbon footprints as role models. Al Gore for example has multiple homes. He is easily in the top 5% of carbon footprints in the world.
If the most alarmist and upset climate activists cannot get their carbon footprint down below the average human, then it is pointless to try. The only fix for this problem is technological acceleration toward clean energy, even if getting there causes short term emissions to increase.