The biggest impact on climate is industry.
No eating meat, or not flying is a drop in the bucket.
I think meat industry was estimated at 3%.
Politicians are picked by big business and that's why there is a resistance to deal with the issue systematically.
Also sad truth is that N America and Europe are reducing their footprint while China and India are happily growing on heaps of burning plastics.
This is global problem and we don't have tools to deal with it globally. Give money to China to reduce the emissions, they will take it and put up a front of them doing something. The horrible truth is that we can barely do anything about the global warning. All we are really doing is watch this tragic play called "The tragedy of the commons" slowly playing out as we seep coke through paper straw from a plastic cup.
The thing to remember here is that NA and EU can afford to reduce their emissions since they consume Chinese/Indian products in the first place. If more things had to be manufactured in-house, the local western emissions would be higher.
So on top of that, China and India (and other developing nations) need to be properly incentivized to switch to more friendly technologies. China saw this with their massive coal usage causing intense smog and moving quite a bit to solar (note: haven't checked what the current status of that is so if it's changed I could be wrong)
Politicians are picked by big business and that's why there is a resistance to deal with the issue systematically.
Also sad truth is that N America and Europe are reducing their footprint while China and India are happily growing on heaps of burning plastics.
This is global problem and we don't have tools to deal with it globally. Give money to China to reduce the emissions, they will take it and put up a front of them doing something. The horrible truth is that we can barely do anything about the global warning. All we are really doing is watch this tragic play called "The tragedy of the commons" slowly playing out as we seep coke through paper straw from a plastic cup.
I really hope I am wrong.