There's a lot of steps that some people have taken, but for the most part this needs to be a top-down approach. Most of the primary drivers of CO2 emissions are our energy generation, and construction. Somewhere below that are shipping, and somewhere well below that are ordinary citizen activities.
Turning off your A/C and biking to work only gets us so far. I agree that the suburban soccer mom isn't the appropriate target. I disagree about the idea of setting targets that may be difficult to obtain/have the potential to be missed. There's merit in challenging ourselves.
I’ve said it before but there are no fundamental scientific breakthroughs required to reach carbon neutral.
Everyone is aware of the options for carbon neutral power generation, wind, solar, nuclear, & grid storage. Wind and solar have come down to the point where they are competitive with fossil fuels.
What the denier set still likes to harp on is the misperception that carbon neutral must mean the end of cars, meat, air travel, and international shipping.
For air travel, shipping and places where internal combustion engines are required over battery electric there’s carbon neutral fuels. Bio fuels is one type but both the Navy and industry have demonstrated methods to pull CO2 out of the air and synthesize it into hydrocarbons fuel.
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/news/releases/nrl-seawater-carbon-capture-process-receives-us-patent
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...-dioxide-into-fuels-artificial-photosynthesis
Construction also releases a lot of the worlds CO2. Processing steel and concrete especially. But even here progress has been made.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2019/01/09/boston-metal/amp/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2185217-the-future-with-lower-carbon-concrete/
Heating concrete currently burns a lot of fossil fuels which can be replaced with alternative energy. Processing also releases a lot of CO2 which those companies aim to reduce. Interestingly as concrete cures it’s actually absorbing CO2 and releasing heat.
Even cow farts (actually burps) can be addressed by adding 1% of a type of seaweed to their feed. It cuts down methane production by over 60%.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-eating-seaweed-can-help-cows-to-belch-less-methane
So the doom and gloom coming from
@glenn1 and those against doing anything is misplaced.
All though Glenn should be concerned because stopping climate change does require us to take Glenn’s guns (but only his
)