If you called for help but no one came, how would you feel? Despite sad songs sung by cowboys, believe that not all roses have thorns. Dare to be stupid but don’t be an American Idiot.
I’d heard about this before. I’m reluctant to even call this a climate thing. While its certainly good for the climate if Africa isn’t reliant on fossil fuels, the primary thing here is that its an improvement to people’s lives, not that it reduces emissions.
Amazing work though.
No, they don’t want anyone on a bike. (Even though if people go from bike lanes to being in cars that will be even more of an inconvenience.)
Or rather, the vast majority of pollution is created by a relatively small set of companies on behalf of the vast majority of people in the world (or at least in certain wealthy countries.) I.E. oil companies which generate oil used to power plants that generate electricity and plastic that are used by ordinary people, whose options are restricted such that they are reliant on the set of companies generating pollution. Thus, people need to reduce their reliance on (and therefore usage of) said industries (which would stop operating (and thus polluting) if they were not used), but can’t do so without cooperation from governments that are often paid off by the corporations generating the pollution. The wealthy generate pollution corporately, not individually, most climate actions will necessarily affect the average person, because they will affect corporations whose actions have an unjust effect on the lives of the average individual…
He did research, and he didn’t cheap out.
Ah, sorry, I think I clocked you as one of those anti-urbanism shitheads that comes in here sometimes and says stupid shit. Never mind, we’re in agreement here, carry on.👍
Good, packaged snacks like this probably need to be a thing we increasingly cut out (in much higher percents than this.)
Ok, then you’re not a city guy. I don’t get why self-proclaimed non-city people come on topics that mostly matter for people in cities.
Man this does not make you look good. Like, they told you to stop.
I don’t agree with their perspective on this, and I think we should in general be trying to consolidate communities right now, but if the mods told you to stop, you should have laid off it for a while at least.
This is sad, and they’re getting the absolute wrong message here.
Honestly, its probably just a nitpick, but its mostly a framing thing.
The only distinction here is that in Africa, this is mostly about access to energy (which is one of the key factors in standard of living increases), whereas in most of the “Global North” renewables are mostly about reducing energy consumption (via efficiency) and consuming it in ways that don’t impact the environment as much (i.e. replacing the same amount of fossil fuel derived energy).
The primary benefit here is that people who couldn’t access energy before now can. They aren’t really offsetting emissions because there wasn’t a previously established fossil fuel energy generation capacity that was generating nearly as much energy as the new solar capacity is.
Either way, the human livelihood benefits are amazing and it is good that we can get them without expanding fossil fuels. Its good on both sides and entirely a framing nitpick on my part.