▲ 680 ▼ The world's corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for it (phys.org) submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) People need to make a conscious effort to buy less shit. It's easy to blame corpos but we create that demand. If it doesn't solve a problem you have, you don't need it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Syldon@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Or we could create enough green energy to satisfy that demand. I totally agree that we have a social problem with greed. This is not something any government will fix because more taxes makes their live easier. Fight the battles you can win, not the ones you can't. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) We don't have time to spin up enough infrastructure to match current production with renewable energy. Consumption must come down until then, and only scale up once the new infrastructure can handle it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Syldon@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Not according to some. No you cannot do it overnight, but it will never happen at if we do not start. The first step is to stop giving money to fossil fuel companies so they can gouge us further with higher priced energy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Or we could create enough green energy to satisfy that demand. I totally agree that we have a social problem with greed. This is not something any government will fix because more taxes makes their live easier. Fight the battles you can win, not the ones you can't. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) We don't have time to spin up enough infrastructure to match current production with renewable energy. Consumption must come down until then, and only scale up once the new infrastructure can handle it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Syldon@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Not according to some. No you cannot do it overnight, but it will never happen at if we do not start. The first step is to stop giving money to fossil fuel companies so they can gouge us further with higher priced energy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) We don't have time to spin up enough infrastructure to match current production with renewable energy. Consumption must come down until then, and only scale up once the new infrastructure can handle it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Syldon@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Not according to some. No you cannot do it overnight, but it will never happen at if we do not start. The first step is to stop giving money to fossil fuel companies so they can gouge us further with higher priced energy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Not according to some. No you cannot do it overnight, but it will never happen at if we do not start. The first step is to stop giving money to fossil fuel companies so they can gouge us further with higher priced energy. permalink fedilink source parent