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I wish we could just blame the Kochs. If it were that easy, we'd be carbon neutral right now. It's inconvenient, Something has to give, and it isn't the Kochs. It is our behavior. I don't want to go first. You go first!
I don't want to pay more for groceries. I don't want to bus to work. I want my house at 70 degrees. I want to go skiing, I want to fly to Europe. It's all of us. It's our problem. Not theirs. When we stop buying brawny paper towels, the Koch brother will take notice, I assure you.
The best thing to do, right now, is show other citizens you care, that you are part of tribe, by doing a token action, a solar panel, a recycle bin, an electric car. Add a bit of rhetoric and then blame someone else while really doing nothing in our own lives that makes any notable difference in GHG. Eating organic and local isn't helping but it makes us feel like we are trying a few times a day it puts peer pressure on others. Keeping the pressure on others, on politicians to spend other peoples time and money to find solutions so that someday, the alternatives will be easier, and more palatable, for me.
Right now, It's all banter but no one one any side is seriously willing to take the plunge, including 90% of GHG 'believers' despite the rhetoric. If a Koch conspiracy helps to motivate that other guy into action, well it was all worth it, wasn't it?
I was living semi-off the grid in CA a few years ago when the state was heavily subsidizing. There were a lot of installations going in because of it. As the subsidy was reduced, adoption of solar fell correspondingly.
I don't think that the responsibility falls entirely on the public. The federal, state, and local governments and local and regional utilities can and should be pushing this both a public good environmentally and a public utility wrt to energy production. The federal government should just make distributed energy a policy choice and fund it, and let the admin and implementation be as decentralized as possible.
This is doable on a significant scale pretty quickly now that the cost of technology as dropped substantially, e.g., since CA initiated the project several years ago. Not only that there has been a lot of related innovation wrt high efficiency appliances, lighting, and gadgets. It's possible to live pretty well off the grid now, and a generator makes up for those times one needs a extra burst for, say, an air compressor.
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I wish we could just blame the Kochs. If it were that easy, we'd be carbon neutral right now.
It's inconvenient, Something has to give, and it isn't the Kochs. It is our behavior. I don't want to go first. You go first!
I don't want to pay more for groceries. I don't want to bus to work. I want my house at 70 degrees. I want to go skiing, I want to fly to Europe.
It's all of us. It's our problem. Not theirs. When we stop buying brawny paper towels, the Koch brother will take notice, I assure you.
The best thing to do, right now, is show other citizens you care, that you are part of tribe, by doing a token action, a solar panel, a recycle bin, an electric car. Add a bit of rhetoric and then blame someone else while really doing nothing in our own lives that makes any notable difference in GHG.
Eating organic and local isn't helping but it makes us feel like we are trying a few times a day it puts peer pressure on others.
Keeping the pressure on others, on politicians to spend other peoples time and money to find solutions so that someday, the alternatives will be easier, and more palatable, for me.
Right now, It's all banter but no one one any side is seriously willing to take the plunge, including 90% of GHG 'believers' despite the rhetoric. If a Koch conspiracy helps to motivate that other guy into action, well it was all worth it, wasn't it?
I was living semi-off the grid in CA a few years ago when the state was heavily subsidizing. There were a lot of installations going in because of it. As the subsidy was reduced, adoption of solar fell correspondingly.
I don't think that the responsibility falls entirely on the public. The federal, state, and local governments and local and regional utilities can and should be pushing this both a public good environmentally and a public utility wrt to energy production. The federal government should just make distributed energy a policy choice and fund it, and let the admin and implementation be as decentralized as possible.
This is doable on a significant scale pretty quickly now that the cost of technology as dropped substantially, e.g., since CA initiated the project several years ago. Not only that there has been a lot of related innovation wrt high efficiency appliances, lighting, and gadgets. It's possible to live pretty well off the grid now, and a generator makes up for those times one needs a extra burst for, say, an air compressor.
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