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[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (7 children)

We still don't have affordable alternatives for areas where there is no public transportation or non-car options. A lot of people are barely paying their bills and can't even consider buying an electric car right now. Not that electric cars are really the answer either. We have a long way to go from where I stand.

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, like what are we supposed to do when there are few side-walks, work is 30-1hr away at freeway speeds, and public transit is either dirty, unreliable, or unsafe?

Most of us want to do away with our fossil fuel dependancy- but we need better options.

And before anyone says walk or take a bike, that isn't feasable for everyone

[–] force@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

and public transit is either dirty, unreliable, or unsafe?

Or non-existant. See: most of the US (please send help, passenger rail doesn't exist here and I live less than an hour from a city)

[–] Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Interesting tidbit about public transport: there are electric busses. Those busses are used in the northern hemisphere, mainly to advertise to the public how "eco friendly the company is" to consumers. Those busses are heated by diesel aggrigators, and require to burn more fuel than what driving a diesel bus would need for the routes. And apparently diesel busses do not require this kind of upkeep when on standby.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A quick search does not yield a single site backing up your claim. Do you have a source?

[–] Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I live in a nordic country, very proud of it's nature, and I know bus drivers.

In all honesty, I'd not be surprised if these cases were isolated, but that has been the greivance of these drivers.

The alternatives to this would be a heated hall, or finding a way to power the heating with renewable energy, but then again, diesel is cheaper than the alternative, and most of the passengers have no idea. There isn't any proper sanvtions to incentivice not doing this, and considering our current ruling parties, probably won't be either, but I consider this to be something that should be more talked about.

[–] 7of9@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

That is not true.

[–] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm okay with more rural areas if the cities have a robust public infrastructure and carbon emissions. Over time, rural areas should be integrated more intimately of course.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

The problem aren't those who can't afford green alternatives, the problem are those who can afford too much non-green alternatives. The ecological footprint is more or less proportional to the paycheck. #eattherich

And while the ecological footprint is problematic when applied to individuals, it shows quite good which group of people is the problem.

[–] SirStumps@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I feel like hybrid is a good middle ground until we crack some code.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

If I had a bus to take I'd save myself a gas tank at a time.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

COP28 policy decisions be like

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't have any kids so my use of ICE vehicles is guilt free? 🤔

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Who says its his biological child? It could be any number of Republicans with one of their child-brides.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

Depends on your philosophy. If you believe carbon footprint/population control you should be guilt free. Mind that shell populized the carbon footprint.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

could easily swap "fossil fuels" for animal products here.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Except the climate change contribution of all agriculture combined is only a fraction of that caused by fossil fuels.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A lot of agriculture is driven by fossil fuels though. Or, more specifically, fossil fuels in energy and transportation, as well as in fertilizer production.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably more so for fruit and vegetables than meat though, crops require diesel farm equipment in virtually every aspect of their production, whereas animals are self propelled

[–] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well except that we first need to use all the sane diesel farm equipment to grow soy and corn crops that we can then feed to those self propelled animals.

In most of the westernised supply chain livestock animals don't get to propel themselves very far anyway. Where once farmers would drive cattle to market on hoof, now they litteraly drive them in a truck.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends where you live, the cattle and sheep where I live just wander around in the paddocks and eat grass for the most part.

Besides, cattle trucks are public transport for cows anyway, very efficient.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's a BIG part of the reason agriculture scores so high on this chart, yeah

I'm not saying that animal husbandry isn't contributing a lot to climate change, but compared to fossil fuels, it's absolutely miniscule.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would love a source on this

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A quick search failed to produce an article or study directly comparing the two, so I did each separately.

The livestock sector requires a significant amount of natural resources and is responsible for about 14.5% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (7.1 Gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents for the year

Source (source indicated under graph)

Livestock pretty much entirely contribute to climate change inherently via methane and incidentally via use of fossil fuel for transport and specialized machinery. If all of the latter went fully electric, that 14.5% could probably go down to 10% if not 5%..

To call 5 to 14.5% the equivalent of 73% is absolute lunacy that smacks of ideological bias, especially since you don't mention plant farming, which contributes a lot as well.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

hmm, I didn't have any issue finding studies that compare the two; here's one:
https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2022/03/15/it-may-be-uncomfortable-we-need-talk-about-it-animal-agriculture-industry-and-zero-waste

Animal agriculture produces 65% of the world's nitrous oxide emissions which has a global warming impact 296 times greater than carbon dioxide. Raising livestock for human consumption generates nearly 15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, which is greater than all the transportation emissions combined.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Very much cherry picking data points here: nitrous oxide has a higher impact by volume, but the output is infinitesimal compared to CO² and other harmful substances involved in the extraction, processing and combustion of fossil to the point that it's still a TINY problem in comparison.

As for this part

15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, which is greater than all the transportation emissions combined

That's just a flat out lie.

Source:

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I love you at a surface level, but scratch a little bit deeper and all you'll find is mindlessness."

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"I engage in societally acceptable performative displays of responsibility and affection but won't actually take meaningful action to help you 😘"

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This is dark. I love it.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

More acceptable to me than claiming one and doing the other.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

So what does this mean? He's not going to give her a ride to school every day? Or he'll do it, but on his bicycle.