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How about cutting our energy usage?
That's not going to happen.
You mean a maximum per* house?
Good point, you should also look into bringing the world population down to less then 100million.
Disinformation. A majority of power use is industry. Also careful, depopulation is fascist narrative which pushes for a mass genocide.
That was obviously tongue-in-cheek pointing out the flaw in saying "let's just cut usage." A majority of industry uses that energy to support the human population. You can't just cut it off. It's an untenable solution just like reducing the population to 100 million.
A lot of industry is completely superfluous, as seen by amazon overproducing and then dumping islands worth of material into landfills when they don't sell. Some things obviously still need to be made but we could stop producing 99% of stuff and be way better off for it.
Do you see the junk mail circulating through the US postal system as superfluous?
Obviously.
That is also true. But the reason that shit exists is because of capitalism. Someone makes money from polluting for no other reason. The only way to fix that problem is changing our society to something that doesn't allow random dick heads like musk or bezos to profit off of consumption.