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In several European countries, plastic is sorted to be used in incinerators for local heat production.
Sure, it doesn’t count as renewable nor carbon-free energy, but it gets rid of the waste and makes double use of the oil extracted.
In several European countries, plastic is sorted to be used in incinerators for local heat production.
Sure, it doesn’t count as renewable nor carbon-free energy, but it gets rid of the waste and makes double use of the oil extracted.
No, there were credible academic studies back in 2012 that explained the Arabs Spring revolts by climate change, leaving countryside communities unable to sustain their mode of life.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-conflict-arabspring-idUSKCN1PH23B
Well, I have some difficulties seeing Hamas or even Fatah participating peacefully to a secular Palestinian government. Two states living next to each other remains the only possible solution for at least a hundreds year. But Israel needs to make concessions to Fatah if one wants a chance to have a long enough peace to starts mending the civil society.
Agreed.
Our modern social apparatus: education, health, police, justice… contributes about 1.4 teqCO2/person/year. Just our breathing, for a single person, emits about 350kg of CO2/year. This carbon we breath out is accounted for from our food. But you have to understand that it is the absolute minimum a living human being can emit.
Now, that leaves about 250kg eqCO2/person/year for everything else: housing, heating, leisure, traveling, clothing… if we think we need to stay under 2t eqCO2. This completely impossible.
Whereas if we were half as many, like 50 years ago, 4t/person/year still enables us to live a modern life.
And bankrupt and dispossess the lender if a disaster happens to their newly acquired home?
Renewables will inevitably become cheaper than fossil fuels, as the resource dwindles. The problem is how to make energy abundant enough to satisfy our current needs and those of the rest of the world, who expects to reach our standards of living?
(A: it’s not possible, nuclear can help, but only for a while, perhaps enough time for the demographic transition to complete)
In general, the price of a good in a competitive market is directly tied to its energy cost (either manual or machine labor), which is itself tied to its carbon footprint. If something is more expensive, it is very likely that its production emitted more GHG, or that you’re getting scammed.
As an exemple, beef is more expensive than chicken, which is itself more expensive than vegetables.
That’s why the best personal action to save on GHG emissions is still to become poorer/reduce your material comfort. Compensate with richer interactions with others and a sense of community.
Also, eating industrial food over organic:
First because, per calorie produced, organic farming emits 12 to 40% more green house gases.
(Depending on the study).
Second, because you’ll be less healthy and die sooner.
Stupidly click baity title. The only corporation that does not pollute is the one that doesn’t produce anything. Sure, regulations such as carbon taxes are necessary to contain negative externalities, but if there’s a demand for cheap products there will be a lowest bidder that will take all market share.
Lowering our consumption is unfortunately the way to make those companies pollute less.
The same type of program is being introduced at European universities.
In my doctoral school, this is a five hours course, presented as a MOOC. Not too sure it really is useful.
The educated public generally feels concerned about the subject, and such a generic course feels boring to its intended audience.
And unfortunately, the rebound effect nullifies iits ecological impact.
The Helsinki declaration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki
Is the reference for health sciences these days.