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yreadyesterday at 8:19 PM3 repliesview on HN

Work close to your home, dont travel long distances, dont buy stuff you dont really need, eat less red meat


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nradovyesterday at 8:43 PM

Trying to shame people into scaling back their lifestyles isn't going to work. We need to approach the problem with a growth and abundance mindset to innovate our way to solutions. Regardless of the larger impacts or moral issues most people aren't going to be willing to sit in dark cramped high-rise apartments eating tofu. At least not if they have other options.

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Dylan16807yesterday at 11:58 PM

Okay that'll reduce output by a third by the people that participate.

We need big funding and legal maneuvers to actually fix the problem. That or praying very hard that renewables are so good they can free-market fix everything without any additional pushes.

henearkryesterday at 8:26 PM

But you also need to explain others why they should do that too (only one person doing all of that will not make a difference).

This is where "people watching Fox News" are guilty here, they got the wrong information and thus are really not able to decide to "eat less meat" or "avoid ICE vehicles".

So Fox News is a real culprit. But let's not forget that many different news channels exist, with an infinitely better coverage of AGW.

So I actually think it is perfectly OK to blame people for watching Fox News.