While I think it’s nice that more people care about the environment, I wish that that same attention was proportially distrubuted amongst the issues causing the most damage instead of inconsequential shit like this.
People get extremely neutrotic about the most inconsequential environmental issues, but completely ignore all of the most impactful ones.
Aside from the existing well placed criticism like oil subsidies, I wish people were that passionate about using wood in conctruction instead of concrete. Switching to heat pumps where possible. Or not driving cars more than necessary or switching to smaller vehicles, like small electric cars, motorcycles, ebikes and bikes or public transport. Or that people would demand the end of corn and soy subsidies and biofuels, which are completely counter productive in their current form. Or that people care more about how zoning and building codes destroy the environment with things like single-family zoning, minimum parking requirements, banning mixed use etc…
I would like a more rational approach to environmentalism instead of this endless pointless virtue signaling, self-flaggelating and greenwashing.
But I get the feeling that things are going in the right direction at least.
I think things are going in the right direction, yeah. Things could be moving faster and we could be doing more, but I don’t think that precludes all the little things either, it all adds up.
That is true, I think we are currently entering the exponential part of the technology curve when it comes the sustainable technologies. Progress over the next 20 years will be insane. Thing like cheap high density batteries, solid state magnetocaloric heat pumps, crazy advances in computing/automation/AI will all add up really quickly.
I’m also really looking forward to our daily lives not being subject to the whims of despotic fossil fuel states.
While I think it’s nice that more people care about the environment, I wish that that same attention was proportially distrubuted amongst the issues causing the most damage instead of inconsequential shit like this.
People get extremely neutrotic about the most inconsequential environmental issues, but completely ignore all of the most impactful ones.
Aside from the existing well placed criticism like oil subsidies, I wish people were that passionate about using wood in conctruction instead of concrete. Switching to heat pumps where possible. Or not driving cars more than necessary or switching to smaller vehicles, like small electric cars, motorcycles, ebikes and bikes or public transport. Or that people would demand the end of corn and soy subsidies and biofuels, which are completely counter productive in their current form. Or that people care more about how zoning and building codes destroy the environment with things like single-family zoning, minimum parking requirements, banning mixed use etc…
I would like a more rational approach to environmentalism instead of this endless pointless virtue signaling, self-flaggelating and greenwashing.
But I get the feeling that things are going in the right direction at least.
I think things are going in the right direction, yeah. Things could be moving faster and we could be doing more, but I don’t think that precludes all the little things either, it all adds up.
That is true, I think we are currently entering the exponential part of the technology curve when it comes the sustainable technologies. Progress over the next 20 years will be insane. Thing like cheap high density batteries, solid state magnetocaloric heat pumps, crazy advances in computing/automation/AI will all add up really quickly.
I’m also really looking forward to our daily lives not being subject to the whims of despotic fossil fuel states.