Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

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    1 year ago

    Is your point we should not be taking steps to decrease electricity usage because this step by itself doesn’t fix the entire problem?

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      People will complain about climate change than complain about LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ATTEMPT to improve it. Isnt this what people are always saying needs to happen?? That individual action isnt the way but we need legislature to fix everything? What did people think would happen if governments try to fight climate change? That our lives would in no way shape or form be affected?

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        1 year ago

        The answer is everyone else has to fix climate change. Everyone but me

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          When you have billionares shooting off joy ride rocket ships to space putting out more pollutants than 1000 regular people do in a lifetime per trip, yeah, my recycling everything and switching to oat milk is a pretty futile effort. Individual actions are fine, but there are some things that need the force of law to make a difference.

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            1 year ago

            Agreed, both are completely required.

            You’re only one person, you don’t have to take full responsibility for all of climate change. But you can take responsibility for your slice of climate change

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              https://ideas.ted.com/environmental-impact-carbon-emissions-of-space-tourism/

              https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-space-joyride-emitted-a-lifetime-s-worth-of-1848196182

              Like many things there is a lot of back and forth depending on what numbers you throw into the calculation. Raw carbon from the rocket fuel may be low, but taking in indirect sources raises the totals dramatically. I prefer to look ilat the totality of things since things like flying private jets to the launch site wouldn’t happen if there where no launch to attend.

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                1 year ago

                75 to 1000 tons of CO2?

                That’s, what, 5-62 years of an average American lifestyle?

                Honestly, that’s not so bad lol

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                Well, sure, space tourism emissions are gonna be relatively enormous compared to other forms of travel, but I was thinking of stuff like that, versus typical individual emissions, emissions by industry, etc., as % of total global emissions.

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                  The second article gives some comparison to individual emissions. Another way to look at it though, if Jeff’s space trip to generate (to pull numbers out of the air) 1000x the average annual output of an individual then controlling a single point is going to be far more practical than attempting to get 1000 others to do what is needed to offset it PLUS whatever amounts needed to have a net reduction. There’s been a commonly floated stat that 100 companies are responsible for the majority of global emissions, getting those 100 to reduce their output by half is going to be a lot simpler and have a larger impact overall than to try and coordinate the 7B+ people on the planet.

                  Doing your own actions sets a good example and is good practice, but a tiny dot in the global scale of things compared to things like travel and industrial output.

                  https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/22/instagram-posts/no-100-corporations-do-not-produce-70-total-greenh/

                  To dispute to 100 entitites part, is above which seems viable too. On net though, to look at it in a simplified manner I’ve never launched a rocket to space, but for that to be offset would take the collective action of a sizable number of people.

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                    Well, the sum of “things like travel and industrial output” (which are affected by individual actions) is enormous. Human emissions in total are, shockingly, the sum of all emissions caused by individuals. What I’m really getting at here is that we need to see something like a Gini coefficient, distribution breakdown, etc. of emissions across the entire population (globally would be informative, within more developed countries would also be informative). You look at people driving around megayachts and taking private jets everywhere, obviously as an individual their impact is a thousand times out of whack, but I’d be surprised if that amounts to more than a drop in the bucket unless you start expanding that category as wide as to include “car owners” and such.

                    I bring it up because it seems like the kind of “I can’t do anything as an individual” line of reasoning I see so much seems to be really problematic and preventing these problems from actually being resolved.