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Willdudes t1_jczezgb wrote

Reply to comment by alsomahler in UN climate report: Scientists release 'survival guide' to avert climate disaster by filosoful

1.5 was a pipe dream we will not make the change’s necessary, our best bet is carbon capture. Industry produces the vast majority of carbon I do not see that changing.
https://harvardpolitics.com/climate-change-responsibility/ This should not stop us from acting but consumers will have to vote with their wallets

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right_there t1_jczhhzy wrote

Carbon capture is pie-in-the-sky shit right now. None of the CCS facilities have gotten even close to their targets, and it's being used as a smokescreen to justify extracting even more fossil fuels.

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skunk_ink t1_jczunfw wrote

This is the thing that people seem to be blind to. Even if carbon capture was meeting its targets, fossil fuel use must also be reduced in order to stop the planet from further degradation. Yet some how most people seem to be completely oblivious to this and think carbon capture means we can keep using fossil fuels. It's absolutely fucking insane.

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Willdudes t1_jd09km9 wrote

Even if every individual did there part that is only 30% decrease. Companies need to do the vast majority, I have little faith in that happening. Unless we have some breakthrough it is very disconcerting.

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alclarkey t1_jd0hl1n wrote

Tell this to the person who the only job they could find was 20 miles from where they live. Tell them they have to cut their fossil fuel use. Let me know how that goes for you.

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GimmickNG t1_jd0xxjm wrote

Those people have been utterly failed at all levels by their government and society. That needing a car to drive twenty miles is a requirement in certain countries should be enough to hang everyone involved in making things that way.

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