• blazera
    14•1 year ago

    Love how everyone just assumes they dont have any impact on climate change, some smoke factory somewhere else must be to blame.

  • @realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    That’s just one city though. I’m sure it’s different for cities with a lot of manufacturing or whatnot.

    • @lps2@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17•1 year ago

      Exactly - also, cars are a symptom of a lack of urban planning but with remote work on the rise, car emissions will fall. I am hopeful that more communities will rise as a result as people live and work in the same place and get personal time back to invest in their surroundings

      • Aesthesiaphilia
        6•1 year ago

        As long as it doesn’t result in more suburban sprawl, which would undo the benefits of shorter commutes.

    • blazera
      3•1 year ago

      All cities have a lot of manufacturing. Its a city

      For the entire US, personal vehicles are the largest source of emissions.

      • Aesthesiaphilia
        15•1 year ago

        Not true.

        https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions

        Transportation, including commercial, is 28%. Electricity 25% and industry 23%.

        Cars, trucks, etc account for only half of that 28%.

        https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions#transportation

        So even if we lump in commercial transportation with personal vehicles, it’s still only 14% of ghg emissions or roughly half that of electricity generation.

        Support renewable energy.

        • blazera
          3•1 year ago

          thats disingenuous to break down transportation, but not the other sectors. Like energy’s largest contributor is coal, also at around half the sector’s total emissions. But yeah, it’s definitely significant, and renewable energy gains synergistically increase emissions reductions from transportation sector switching to EV’s.

          • Aesthesiaphilia
            6•1 year ago

            I was just refuting / giving context to this:

            For the entire US, personal vehicles are the largest source of emissions.

            A lot of the fuckcars types think banning cars will fix the climate, just like vegans think banning meat will fix the climate. I was trying to head off any comments in that direction.

            We need to do all of the things.