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    1 year ago

    Just vote for the candidates that actually care about the climate

    I vote green. Americans can’t unless they’re willing to throw their vote away

    You can also help a little bit by using things that have a very low carbon footprint over its lifetime

    Cars are a tiny fraction of a country’s carbon footprint

    • Energy (electricity, heat and transport): 73.2%
    • Direct Industrial Processes: 5.2%
    • Waste: 3.2%
    • Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use: 18.4%

    Energy includes road transport which is 11.9%, of which cars+motorbikes+buses is 60% so 7.4% overall

    Animal agriculture is about the same as passenger transport

    My EV is a drop in the bucket. Only fossil fuel investors and governments can move the needle

    Carbon numbers are from https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector