• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOP
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    7 months ago

    The most cost-effective things that eliminate the most carbon are, according to the research done by Drawdown:

    • Utility Scale Solar PV
    • Improved home insulation
    • Electric cars
    • Bamboo production
    • Distributed Solar PV (home installations)
    • Wind Farms
    • Plant based diets

    But I suspect electric bicycles are far better than Electric cars.

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      7 months ago

      They sure are. It sounds like this video is examining these things in isolation instead of looking at the wider social effects that also help counter climate change. For example, if you build houses closer together, you’ll not only reduce heating and cooling costs, you’ll also reduce the monetary and carbon costs of infrastructure, you’ll improve the efficiency calculation of public transit, and you’ll make bikes more viable. One change with knock on effects that help three different sustainability areas. One change that literally costs negative money and also helps the environment. How did this not make the list??

      Also shooting rich people dead only costs a hunting rifle and some bullets, and it prevents hundreds of private jet flights a year.

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        7 months ago

        The video was analyzing the effects of the costs until 2050. Things like housing density increase slowly so might not be impacted substantially by 2050. Also most of the best solutions have a negative cost projected out to 2050, so no killing people isn’t a better solution.