Also:
“An innovative solution that’s always 5-7 years out, but you will never hear of again because this article jumped the gun.”
That’s “great result in a specific time and place”
They missed “environmental catastrophe unrelated to climate change that is getting ignored because it’s unrelated to climate change”
Soil depletion, micro plastics, habitat loss, fertilizer runoff, invasive species, heavy metal contamination, light pollution, etc etc. Yes climate change is a big fucking problem, but if it were to magically get resolved overnight we’d still wake up to a mountain of other human-created environmental issues. But because everyone is so focused on climate change specifically, we’re standing still (or even moving backward) on other issues. For example: electric cars are heralded as an environmental solution, but they: still require a lot of mining and resource extraction, still pollute through tire and brakepad wear, still produce a mountain of waste at the end of their lifespan, still use asphalt roads that require salting in winter, and still promote poor land use that creates all kinds of domino-effect problems (environmental and otherwise). Similarly hydroelectric is promoted as a sustainable energy source, but they wreak absolute havoc on river ecosystems.
Isn’t habitat loss at least in part due to climate change as well?
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First two are pretty much it
There’s a bit more going on; in particular it’s been clear that a mix of measures put together would suffice to stabilize temperatures.
The big issue is that the people who make money off fossil fuels and ruminants hold political power and have been able to delay implementation.
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