Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful

BrightCandle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Food is the big one that clearly has to change, its not possible to reduce the CO2 impact of meat and that will have to change. Its also going to be required to change the gas boiler for a heat pump or electrical heating, cars to be replaced by Electrical Vehicles and to stop using airplanes. The electrical side which is making progress is only about a third of the CO2 production and all the other things also need addressing.

What a lot of personal CO2 calculators currently do is conflate primary CO2 production (your burnt the fuel in your device) and secondary (you bought electricity from a company) but things like meat and airplanes we know there isn’t a technical solution to reducing CO2. The same is not true for transit miles and other goods which often get included but which could largely be made with electricity given the transition that must occur.

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