Ensuring that everyone on Earth has a decent standard of living is possible in accordance with reducing emissions quickly and decisively.
More info: Closing decent living gaps in energy and emissions scenarios: introducing DESIRE
Ensuring that everyone on Earth has a decent standard of living is possible in accordance with reducing emissions quickly and decisively.
More info: Closing decent living gaps in energy and emissions scenarios: introducing DESIRE
I’m just saying that yes the 0.1% pollute more individually, but most people in first world countries pollute way more than they should and if they’re told to reduce their emissions they won’t be ready to do their part.
I see your point.
Yes we’ll all (all of us reading this anyway) have to do our part, but we’ve already had decades of individual, consumer-focused mitigation efforts (reduce-reuse-recycle, etc). There are too many political and market forces guiding your average person to continue consuming.
The corpos with the real money uphold a system that will only ever incentivise keeping the consumption treadmill going, no matter what some individual consumers might think about it.
I’m curious what you’re proposing. My idea is to soak the rich until there are no more billionaires, and use the cash to pivot hard into a publicly funded green economy. I think people would get into it pretty quickly once they saw it wasn’t just a green washing cash grab.
I 100% agree that billionaires shouldn’t exist. I also believe that governments will need to take actions and adopt laws that people won’t like at some point because we can’t expect people to cut on luxury stuff by themselves (like air travel for example)…
There are some things which the rich can’t force us to do, eating beef isn’t mandatory for example, neither is buying a car with a big engine instead of the more economical option, but realistically people won’t stop by themselves…
Agreed, there needs to be some kind of push or pull at play to get people to choose better, until it becomes ingrained anyway.