• AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There’s easier, more effective battles to fight. People aren’t giving up their SUV’s, and they are a symptom of a bigger problem anyway. Good public transportation could eliminate millions of cars, roads, and road maintenance.

    A few other ideas:

    • Coal power is disgusting and doesn’t even make sense economically anymore.
    • Cruise ships and mega yachts should flat out be banned. They use a ton of energy and dump sewage right into the ocean
    • Heavily tax gas powered lawnmowers. They have a surprisingly large environmental impact because they have no pollution controls and often burn a mixture of oil and gas.
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      6 months ago

      The increase in SUVs isn’t driven by people’s natural preferences; it’s driven by automakers being incentivized by stupid CAFE standards to push SUVs on them. Those bad regulations are what we need to fix.

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      6 months ago

      Also bunker fuel being burned in ocean shipping. Since there very little regulation they burn some of the worst sulfur-emitting fuel. A single container ship emits the equivalent of something like a few hundred thousand every car on the planet, as I recall

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        The biggest container ships produce more emissions than every car on the planet. Granted, I think there’s at most a half dozen of those in operation, but that’s still 6x more than every car on Earth.

        I remember hearing that during COVID lockdowns the first year, an estimated 50% of cars were off the road and total annual emissions dropped 2%.