• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Are they obvious? If they account for 2.5%, shouldn’t the focus be on something that doesn’t produce an emotional response (i.e. planes burn so much fuel! They bad for environment!) But is a bigger contributor to polution?

    Ships come to mind. Biggest 5 polute as much as all cars on earth. Yet car electrification is brough on constantly in the discourse, when using bunker fuel on ships is met wirh silence

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      11 months ago

      They are obvious because they are rarely irreplaceable. We can live without mass tourism and fast deliveries.

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          11 months ago

          Not really. People in developed countries need to divide their emissions by approximately ten times. Every little bit helps. And we should start with the easy ones.