The American middle class committing to small lifestyle changes like eating less meat means we will arrive at a 4º world a week or two later than we might otherwise. We need to have a difficult public debate about things like transitioning to nuclear power, instead we get drivel
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There's a particularly noxious kind of climate sophistry that comes from the fact that out "carbon budget" for a 2ºC warmer world is running out. The less of this arbitrary number is left, the bigger a proportion of it will be accounted for by trivial changes like flying less
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The climate change lobby has made a deal with the devil where they try to give consumers in wealthy countries a sense of agency and urgency by lying to them about what impact their individual decisions can have on climate change. This will rapidly politicize the rest of the issue
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The only way to avert severe climate change is to move the energy basis of the industrial economy off of fossil fuels within a small number of years. This point needs to be hammered home in the public conversation. There's no "yummy recipe" people can follow at home to fix this.
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Moreover, calling for ineffective lifestyle changes among urban consumers in ways that will hurt rural producers, in a country where those rural places are structurally overrepresented in government, will guarantee that climate becomes a third rail issue and we all roast together
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This is from the person who caused global warming just with her chili collection.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUWbyBuqYY&t=185s …
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There’s no such thing like “better consumption”. Everybody needs to consume less. Simple truth, easy to do: No one is hindering you, you safe money, voila.
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Negatively emitting carbon is hard. Maybe we should try absorbing it.
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I am a net carbohydrate absorber
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