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bit of a hot take (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just vote for the candidates that actually care about the climate

I vote green. Americans can't unless they're willing to throw their vote away

You can also help a little bit by using things that have a very low carbon footprint over its lifetime

Cars are a tiny fraction of a country's carbon footprint

Energy (electricity, heat and transport): 73.2%
Direct Industrial Processes: 5.2%
Waste: 3.2%
Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use: 18.4%

Energy includes road transport which is 11.9%, of which cars+motorbikes+buses is 60% so 7.4% overall

Animal agriculture is about the same as passenger transport

My EV is a drop in the bucket. Only fossil fuel investors and governments can move the needle

Carbon numbers are from https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I vote green. Americans can't unless they're willing to throw their vote away

Not necessarily, you can vote for someone who invests in nuclear over someone who invests back into coal

Cars are a tiny fraction of a country's carbon footprint

Maybe, but there are other steps that you can take to minimize your print. Something like a solar array. Sure these are very small steps but they aren't a money sink like they used to be and if enough people adopt them, they could do something.