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Cement is responsible for a suprising amount of CO2 emissions.
It would be very difficult to cut plastic production in half, but it would help!
Road transportation only makes up around 11% of total emissions.
EVs are only as green as the power that charges them. Unless we have a green grid,
this reduction in Road CO2 is accompanied by an increase in CO2 from power generation.
Coal is on its way out in the developed world. But it is providing cheap and reliable power
in developing countries. We need to make it afforadable for them to kick Coal without
derailing
their development, and depriving them of afforable electricty
It requires massive investment in renewables to replace oil.
With many renewables the supply of energy is not reliable or inherently variable.
Solar doesn't produce at night, and the wind doesn't always blow!
Unless we can
store all that green power for use when we can't produce it, we need a stopgap!
That's the role of some fossel fuels until storage technology gets cheap.
While logging may seem antiquated, suprisingly building out of wood is better for the
environment
in many cases. Especially if it replaces high carbon CO2
Meat consumption requires livestock and growth of crops for feed, all this leaves
a large carbon footprint. However, global reduction of meat consumption is a hard sell.
Many people don't want to stop eating meat, and meat is important in our diets and many
of our cultures. There is some hope that lab grown meat could provide a green and humane
alternative.
Where some emmissions seem impossible to prevent, Carbon capture presents some
hope of canceling them anyway. We need invent ways to make this cheap!
It's impossible to exhaust the list of ideas for combatting our emissions.
If you felt frustrated that this box doesn't do anything, go read up on carbon offsets and
invent some! We need awareness and innovation!