Do the right thing.
It may not always be clear at first what the right thing is. For example, recycling is fairly easy but accomplishes much less than something more difficult such as changing your diet or giving up your car.
Learn the differences, and do the right thing. ๐ค
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"Avoiding a long distance flight" comes in at #3 for best ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
Imagine if just HALF of all domestic air travel were replaced by high speed rail? #ThinkOutsideTheBox #MagLev #Trains #GND #ClimateChange
@richardknott @MugsysRapSheet @breadandcircuses The same thing happened with the Milan-Rome corridor in Italy and Barcelona-Madrid in Spain, formerly two of the most profitable air routes in the world.
The one aspect that needs to be considered carefully is integration with other networks. Airports are pretty good at having big car parks, but getting to a city-centre railway station from out of town early in the morning or late at night can be a bit of an adventure.
@riotnrrd @richardknott @breadandcircuses
Fortunately, here in the U.S., there is plenty of open land around Interstate highways for train stations with plenty of parking.
Driving to a HS Rail train station with parking wouldn't be any different from driving to an airport.
IN FACT, if the airlines are providing the trains, they might want to have train stations AT the airport (with tracks running between airports.)
@richardknott @riotnrrd @breadandcircuses
If you're traveling, don't expect an entire family with luggage to walk to the bus just to get to the train station.
And waiting for the construction of subways to take you to the MagLev train station only dramatically delays such a project.
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"Normal" high speed rail still uses fossil fuels, and runs around half the speed of #MagLev (which can be 100% powered by renewable energy.)
Only MagLev trains are fast enough to challenge the speed of air travel.
@richardknott @riotnrrd @breadandcircuses
Something unnerving about traveling 350MPH on rails.
The fastest rail train in the U.S. is Amtrak's "Acela" which tops out at a mere 150MPH.
@riotnrrd @richardknott @breadandcircuses
Feeling the speed is not anything I was thinking about.
If we try to run a 350MPH train on rails, YOU KNOW #Republicans would try to cut costs by making it run on *existing* rails (some laid over 150 years ago) that were never designed to support such speeds.
With #MagLev, they'd have no choice but to lay modern ML tracks designed for high speed travel.
@riotnrrd @richardknott @breadandcircuses
"No being stuck in your seat."
The modern #MagLev train experience is not much different than riding on a plane: https://youtu.be/Y-yJjIoZ11M?si=0e6qyXzgrBSC2BaF
Every time Elon Musk flies his private plane from the Bay Area to Texas or back, he more than negates the CO2 emissions you saved for an entire year, and that's the BEST thing you can do.
We can do ALL of these things, and thousands of millionaires and billionaires more than negate our lifetime of work every month or so. I'm guessing a significant number of corporations negate our lifetime of work hourly.
The second one (โbuying renewable energyโ) is half-truth because #nuclear is one of the most low-carbon sources of electricity, on par with renewables. This should be worded either as โbuying renewables and nuclear energyโ or at least โbuying low-carbon energyโ if they wanted to avoid mentioning nuclear at any cost. By the way, this misconception - people being unaware that nuclear power is one of the most low-carbon sources - could be listed as a separate category too.
@breadandcircuses We need one of these for policies that we can advocate for at the local and national levels.
We are not going to solve this by making better individual consumer decisions.
@breadandcircuses recyling would be better. If you do it every time and everything was recyleable. Most modern smart devices (from smartphone to toaster) etc. cant be recycled properly. So you cant even do it.
As for giving up your car. Its easy to say you will do but in practice, it has to be done by government making better zoning laws, walk/bike friendly streets and robust public transportation.
@breadandcircuses Eating one billionaire tomorrow would have a far greater positive effect on Anthropogenic Global Climate Change than going your whole life vegan, car free, child free, pet free...
That the general population can have ANY positive effect is nothing more than propaganda, bought, paid for, and broadcast by, primarily The Oil & Gas Industry, The Auto Industry....
I would guess that recycling on a system level would have much more effect. That also is true for everything - CO_2 Footprint was invented to give the impression of individual fault, when it actually is a systemic failure. Therefore we have to pressure politics and change our society
@breadandcircuses I think it would be wrong to draw the inference "don't bother recycling" from this chart.
It's just that the point of recycling isn't primarily about reducing CO2 emissions.
I'd also like to see "not having kids" on that list!
@breadandcircuses if not having a car saves so much emissions, why do electric cars have such a big difference?
Supposing that the construction process for electric cars has also been fully migrated to electric in the future
@breadandcircuses while this chart is useful, I believe it still falls in line with the dominant neoliberal narrative that sees climate change as an individual fault and not as a systemic problem.
The Guardian recently ran a series of articles about the global carbon divide and the numbers are staggering: "while the wealthiest 1% tend to live climate-insulated, air-conditioned lives, their emissions โ 5.9bn tonnes of CO2 in 2019 โ are responsible for immense suffering"
@breadandcircuses great, have not flown far for years. Dont own a car.
Love to use my dryer. Buying green energy.
@breadandcircuses I worry that the recycling message may confuse people about the multiple benefits of recycling. As a climate issue, yes smaller. But from a resource (both materials and energy) efficiency standpoint, and from a waste minimization stand point, absolutely essential.
And reducing consumption as a whole is key to addressing climate change and ecosystem health as a whole.
We need a much better sound bite/elevator pitch than "degrowth", which scares many who hear it as a "back to the caves" message.
@fortboise @breadandcircuses I do not believe it's accidental that many people believe that low-effort activities have high impact and high-effort activities have low impact.
All the information is there and has been there for decades. Comparing their gasoline bill and their electric bill should make it extremely clear which is higher impact.
People choose to believe these falsehoods because it's easier for them.
@TomSwirly @fortboise @breadandcircuses I don't think it's accidental either, but from a more generous standpoint: There is a huge push to onboard Naive People Who Do Nothing into climate action by getting them to do the smallest, simplest thing. A lot of effort goes into this idea of unwilling, uninformed people who have to be edged into a change; there's less effort going into "What next?" or "How to make good decisions about an action."
So yes, that's the landscape we're going to see.
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