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Do the right thing.

It may not always be clear at first what the right thing is. For example, recycling is fairly easy but accomplishes much less than something more difficult such as changing your diet or giving up your car.

Learn the differences, and do the right thing. 🤗

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #WarOnCars #BanCars
Graphic is titled: "Carbon Footprint Misconceptions." It lists eight actions that we as consumers might take in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint, and shows that some of those actions that we might think will make a high impact actually will not, such as recycling, whereas other actions, such as not having a car, will save greatly on emissions.
#climatecrisis #climate #environment #climatechange #climateaction #bancars #waroncars
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JanPV
Recycling may not even have that degree of impact. When I asked my local authority where the waste they (i.e. their private, profit-making contractor) collect ends up, they didn't know! How's that for professional curiosity and environmental auditing? 😩
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘
"Avoiding a long distance flight" comes in at #3 for best ways to reduce your carbon footprint.

Imagine if just HALF of all domestic air travel were replaced by high speed rail? #ThinkOutsideTheBox #MagLev #Trains #GND #ClimateChange
Slick looking Chinese MagLev bullet train with "Pan-Am" logos added as a mock-up of what it might look like if commercial airlines built high speed rail trains instead of using planes. Proposal: 21st century version of Lincoln's "Trans-Continental Railroad": Build MagLev rail lines alongside/over interstate highways. We build the tracks. Airlines provide the trains. Dramatically reduce a major CO2 source: domestic air travel.
#climatechange #trains #gnd #thinkoutsidethebox #maglev
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Richard Knott
@MugsysRapSheet Was watching a video on the history of the French TGV a few weeks ago, and when that opened between Paris and Lyon air passengers between the two cities dropped by 60%. France is now banning all short internal flights
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/02/is-france-banning-private-jets-everything-we-know-from-a-week-of-green-transport-proposals

It's official: France bans short-haul domestic flights in favour of train travel

The idea for the ban originally came from a Citizens' Assembly.
Lottie Limb (Euronews.com)
@MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘
Pollinators
@breadandcircuses. These comparisons help my family. Thank you.
@Bread and Circuses
King Kaufman
Every time Elon Musk flies his private plane from the Bay Area to Texas or back, he more than negates the CO2 emissions you saved for an entire year, and that's the BEST thing you can do.

We can do ALL of these things, and thousands of millionaires and billionaires more than negate our lifetime of work every month or so. I'm guessing a significant number of corporations negate our lifetime of work hourly.
kravietz 🦇
The second one (“buying renewable energy”) is half-truth because #nuclear is one of the most low-carbon sources of electricity, on par with renewables. This should be worded either as “buying renewables and nuclear energy” or at least “buying low-carbon energy” if they wanted to avoid mentioning nuclear at any cost. By the way, this misconception - people being unaware that nuclear power is one of the most low-carbon sources - could be listed as a separate category too.
CO2 intensity of electricity sources per UNECE 2020
#nuclear
patrislav ♾️ #RIPNatenom
I think the stats on the left shows that people rank the impact of actions more or less by convenience. Giving up cars and meat is inconvenient, so it must be low-impact.
molly in missouri
#capitalism promotes the thing that makes money for them, and discourages anything that might cause people to think.
Blocking advertisements and corporate messaging is the best way to free up mental space; the rest becomes glaringly obvious once you live like that for just a little bit.
#capitalism
molly in missouri
I even use an element blocker to block promotional "stories" and "suggested products" on news sites.
I noticed i spend less money and feel less longing for products since escaping advertising and promotional 'news.'
The eco benefits add up alongside the improved mental, physical and emotional improvements
Elendol
in the defense of recycling: it would be more useful (if well done) for other ecological crises. Sadly, we don't just have one crisis to tackle but multiple at the same time.
Matt Godden
Needs a “feeding all the billionaires into wood-chippers” axis.
Mullaney
We need one of these for policies that we can advocate for at the local and national levels.

We are not going to solve this by making better individual consumer decisions.
ZenXArch
recyling would be better. If you do it every time and everything was recyleable. Most modern smart devices (from smartphone to toaster) etc. cant be recycled properly. So you cant even do it.

As for giving up your car. Its easy to say you will do but in practice, it has to be done by government making better zoning laws, walk/bike friendly streets and robust public transportation.
H2O
on emissions saved, is that per person? annually? lifetime? wish the chart defined things better
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Nicovel0 🍉
@kingkaufman clearly the solution is to use billionaires as a protein source while transitioning to a vegetarian diet
@King Kaufman
craftycat
@patrislav in all fairness, it's not only inconvenient, it's also simply not possible for a lot of people. I'd love to not need a car, but there are 4 buses a day out here, with the nearest bus stop being 30min walk away. Sometimes we have to make the best choices we can make. I'm a child free vegetarian, I figure that'll have to make up for it.
@patrislav ♾️ #RIPNatenom
Steve Moore :toad:
Climate is intertwined with water & soil, ex. micro plastics in clouds become condensation nuclei, which alters climate.
4Rs - repair, reuse, repurpose, reconsider (purchases). Everything you buy, & throw away has to be transported. Longer lasting things like LEDs require less transport & reduce waste stream, which requires transport. Consider packaging, compost organics, share/trade things, make something you want/need. Little ways to pull the plug on capitalism. Don't give up
Erwin Ernst eest9 Steinhammer
Yeah I think people confuse their carbon footprint with environmental impact overall. Like recycling does a great deal at saving biodiversity but very little for climate change. :/
Paul Tichonczuk
there is a major issue here. Biking everywhere is only 0.2 while not owning a car is 2.4. is the bicycle number assuming I still own a car? Or is manufacturing of bycicles that CO2 intensive? Or the excess food consumption?
Paul Tichonczuk
This is what I get for reading this on my phone. And getting old.

Thanks.

Yeah, recycling is weak in terms of impact.
MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛
@Bread and Circuses
"Not having a car" would have to be extrapolated to "not having a plethora of other consumer goods", the use of which, while not directly generating a carbon footprint, their production and recycling already does. Because effectively the carbon footprint is directly proportional to the income spent on such goods.
@Bread and Circuses
André van Schoubroeck
I'm 39 and I've never owned a car.
Clinton Anderson SwordForHire
Eating one billionaire tomorrow would have a far greater positive effect on Anthropogenic Global Climate Change than going your whole life vegan, car free, child free, pet free...

That the general population can have ANY positive effect is nothing more than propaganda, bought, paid for, and broadcast by, primarily The Oil & Gas Industry, The Auto Industry....
Dronn
I would guess that recycling on a system level would have much more effect. That also is true for everything - CO_2 Footprint was invented to give the impression of individual fault, when it actually is a systemic failure. Therefore we have to pressure politics and change our society
オチュー🕊🇵🇸
How replacing your fossile car by electric car (electricity powered by fossile energy) would be so much more efficient I wonder.
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Mary Hilton
I try to do all of those, but this a short list of what one can actually do-and one of the big ones is: do not have children. People don't understand the complexity of the climate change and more humans on the planet.
JustAFrog
The real problem is getting everyone to accept short-term pain for long-term prosperity.

Society isn't willing to vote for it, apparently.

I will pay for that along with everyone else, whether they voted for head-in-the-sand or not.
Steve Bennett
I think it would be wrong to draw the inference "don't bother recycling" from this chart.

It's just that the point of recycling isn't primarily about reducing CO2 emissions.

I'd also like to see "not having kids" on that list!
iByteABit
if not having a car saves so much emissions, why do electric cars have such a big difference?

Supposing that the construction process for electric cars has also been fully migrated to electric in the future
Antanicus
while this chart is useful, I believe it still falls in line with the dominant neoliberal narrative that sees climate change as an individual fault and not as a systemic problem.

The Guardian recently ran a series of articles about the global carbon divide and the numbers are staggering: "while the wealthiest 1% tend to live climate-insulated, air-conditioned lives, their emissions – 5.9bn tonnes of CO2 in 2019 – are responsible for immense suffering"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/20/first-thing-richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66

First Thing: Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%

‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality
Nicola Slawson (The Guardian)
Manuel
@kingkaufman Also, having the 99% going in the right direction builds political power to force the 1% to stop going the opposite direction.
This is already happening at a very small magnitude and very slowly.
It all depends on how quickly we want to get there.
@King Kaufman
Bram Diederik aka daft_dutch
great, have not flown far for years. Dont own a car.

Love to use my dryer. Buying green energy.
Elliot
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
I worry that the recycling message may confuse people about the multiple benefits of recycling. As a climate issue, yes smaller. But from a resource (both materials and energy) efficiency standpoint, and from a waste minimization stand point, absolutely essential.

And reducing consumption as a whole is key to addressing climate change and ecosystem health as a whole.

We need a much better sound bite/elevator pitch than "degrowth", which scares many who hear it as a "back to the caves" message.
Tom von Alten
Same data, emphasis on the (presumably) desired learning (which is not "see what you're doing wrong").
"Reducing your carbon footprint" - Datagraphic of highest-impact actions to reduce carbon emissions (not having a car, avoiding LD flights, buying renewable energy, eating a plant based diet, etc.) with comparison to stated beliefs of what's most effective.
JohnW
I live in a small mountain town where it is a survival issue between having/not having a car. I can't afford an EV.

My best choice was to buy a smaller one and not drive often. (I work from home so I don't need to).
peter
the thing that pisses me off is that on a structural level, achieving less car journeys has a ton of existing tech with ready to go solutions
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
CO₂ footprint is bullshit though, it is far from being the only pollution agent.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
Right, for example traffic regardless of the means of transport needs a *lot* of infrastructure, for an extreme example you can't just choose to bicycle on a stroad (or well you won't do that for long), taking public transit also means actually having it.
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