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Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies
This is pretty ignorant. Output-based emission intensities can be easily calculated for all sorts of industries. The question is not how are you going to make steel. The question is how can you make steel more efficiently than your competitors and maybe even receive carbon offset benefits on top of reducing your costs so as to incentivize you to be even more efficient.
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I think what he is trying to say is the challenge we have in front of us is a lot bigger and more complex than a lot of people want to admit. A huge portion of people want to think this will be solved with some very basic things like
Electric cars and Tesla's
Elimination of plastic bags, straws and single use plastic reduction
More Recycling and more efficient light bulbs, insulation etc
Those ideas are great and all but a lot of people are not thinking about the scale of the problem or how to tackle it head on.
Automobiles and their explosive growth all over the world
Billions of people coming more and more online and wanting North American style amenities and lifestyles.
The amount of steel, concrete, population growth, aircraft manufacturing and other metrics of economic growth are not aligning with what a lot of people are expecting.
Here is an article from a few months back showing the explosive level of air travel for China. 216 NEW Airports in the next 15+ years to meet expected demand of 720 million passengers by 2020.
https://www.airport-technology.com/n...airports-2035/
Canada has a population target of 100 million people in the next 80 years and this is government policy. Literally tripling our population.
When I look carbon footprints I also look at human behavior. We all abuse the gains we all make from other aspects of our lives.
People generally buy larger homes, larger tv's, larger cars, more cars, larger screen phones, have more electronics. People don't repair their clothes for things anymore, just toss em and buy them new.
This is a problem and nobody has the answer. When the wealthiest guy in the world at one stage says that the finance guys are full of sh**, I believe him.
Too much money to be made pumping up some of these companies that are suppose to "SAVE" the world like Tesla, Uber, Soda Stream, Beyond Meat and other's tied to the environmental movement.