Time to embargo trade with china, cuttoff their cash spicket.

The species as a mass is not intelligent. It has no empathy for others because there are no others. It does not recognize other life as valuable beyond potential as a food source.

You are marveling at the intricacy of individual cells while ignoring the ravenous beast that the cells came from.

The species can't conceive of the choice. It just feeds and facilitates entropy.

Now we get to see if China is all bark...sweet.

>If we can get a carbon cap and trade system in place, I'd be ecstatic.

Most western countries do have one in place so it can happen in California too.

>I just think it's naive that people think it's big corp lobbying congress to keep that from happening. People would freak out.

I am not too familiar with your local situation. What I was trying to say is that every time this is presented as an individual decision and sacrifice instead of as a communal one, it discourages change.

>I was celebrating when gas prices exploded in CA this last year, assuming more people would switch to renewables. Literally the opposite happened. The gov't started mailing out checks to people to help them afford gasoline.

The last year has been a bit of an exception because of the war and inflation. The EU has felt it even more I think despite being less dependent on private vehicles.

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Sounds like a job for "one more turn"

If we can get a carbon cap and trade system in place, I'd be ecstatic. I just think it's naive that people think it's big corp lobbying congress to keep that from happening. People would freak out.

When I'm making these statements, I'm not saying that "this is the result of individual decisions" it's just that all these individual decisions affect policy.

I was celebrating when gas prices exploded in CA this last year, assuming more people would switch to renewables. Literally the opposite happened. The gov't started mailing out checks to people to help them afford gasoline. It's ridiculous. Everyone wants it both ways. They want carbon tax/trade, but they also want low gas prices. You can't have both.

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has mankind developed a chemical to dissipate the smell that will come with it?

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Please do cultured and lab grown meat and dairy.

Oh, we are sorry. Please accept our most sincere apologies

How important are his duties really?

The future is amazing, we can now synthesis the meat of extinct animals and slather it in bbq sauce.

It’s very easy send others to die for your political incompetence and greed.

We will grudgingly make changes - too little, too late - after things get really bad.

There is a Pope in reserve. He can come out of retirement and cover.

To Russia, with love.

Consumers don't want to reduce consumption, producers don't want to reduce profits, governments don't want to centrally plan their economies. Toothless promises several decades in the future of net-zero. Should hit the 2500 Gt CO2e mark no problem.

a decade back in one of my sustainable fuels courses the professor really went on a tangent and deep dive about how the deep ocean currents in the atlantic make most of western europe a habitable place, and how it might be disrupted by the rapid melt of the global ice stores. Also went on about how there were essentially large pools of methane deep in the gulf that were stable now, but if the deep water got just a few degrees higher would permit them to change state to a gas and then bad news bears fire greenhouse gas emissions. Really makes you look forward to the coming apocalypse doesn’t it?

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

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All those trucks and personal vehicles you're seeing around you already follow environmental and safety standards that make them more expensive and emmit less.

If vehicles that were cheaper but worse for the environment could be made and sold legally they would be, but a communal democratic decision has been made to limit the legal limits on emissions for new vehicles.

The responsibility is too often put on the individual to do the right thing, and it distracts from the actually significant decisions that need to be made on a political level.

The significant change can only happen as a communal democratic decision. By us choosing a government that's willing to set stricter limits on emissions, introduce carbon emissions trading and requirements on blended fuels. Many parts of the western world don't even have a useful public transportation system that people can use to reliability get to work and everywhere else they need.

This problem cant be solved by righteous individuals going out and buying an expensive electric car, recycling or going vegan.

It's a communal problem that requires a communal decision, and as you can see in the article you posted, the emissions.have been going down successfully, just not fast enough.

There are companies and think tanks out there that want to put the responsibility on you, the individual, to discourage you from voting in a way that would potentially decrease their profit, but increase the profit of other upcoming industries and be better for all of us.

This dude is 86, you know how many 86 year olds I treat in the average hospital shift? He’s doing well for his age. The elderly land in the hospital with pneumonia all the time, couple days of IV antibiotics and he’s probably fine.

Meatwad comes to mind ATHF