• psud@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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

    • spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee
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      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.