Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’
Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’
A new Oxford University study pinpoints for the first time how high- and low-meat diets impact the planet.
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We could delete every car from existence ever, and it wouldn't be a drop in the bucket. Cargo ships burn the worst fuel and excrete a years worth of car emissions per day. The Nash Equilibrium to all this - the math says it's still the best way to do it. Banning single use plastics, regulating petroleum products, and nuking China will all help alleviate climate change.
According to this compelling article, a significant portion of cargo ships could be electrified.
Years ago I saw trials of large sails on ships I thought was neat.
You got some sources for that claim, cause transportation accounts for 28% of u.s. ghg emissions and 57% of that is light duty vehicles, only 3% is ships and boats. So if we delete every car emissions, at least in the u.s. , would go down by 15%, not enormous but also not a drop in the bucket.
I'm all for the other solutions you mentioned, besides nuking China, but we can't pretend like meat consumption and car use aren't large factors in climate change that we'll have to address.
Not trying to spread misinformation. It's been a few years since I looked into it. I heard it from someone else, and looked it up myself. It's very strange nothing shows up when I google it. The point was - all the cargo shipping in the world goes though daily, the sum total emissions of cars yearly. So the idea was the media is focusing on paper straws and cars on purpose, so nobody would look at the bigger picture and it worked. I admit I'm not finding anything on it when i search now, so it's my L . With recent happenings, the easiest way to show you aren't a bot is to be nice I think.
Don't forget cruise ships and power plants in countries that either lack emissions control or bribe their way out of them.