4·1 day ago- Energy demand to power heavy industry that we all use (steel, aluminum, chemicals, fertilizers)
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- I don’t see these going away, so it’d be best to make their processes greener by repurposing the carbon into ag products, then institute a viable carbon tax and offset the rest of their footprint
- Use of concrete in construction
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- some promising technologies coming that crystallize the carbon and use it to self heal the concrete, carbon tax and offset the rest
- Shipping
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- bring manufacturing closer to consumers, global environmental manufacturing and shipping standards, improve right to repair laws
- Transportation
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- upgrade public transportation options where it makes economic sense to do so, make our cities and towns more people friendly instead of car friendly, raise the gas tax to fund these efforts. Reduce the amount of detached single family housing stock and encourage multi-family stock, particularly in cities.
- Heating and cooling
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- incentivize heat pumps, add taxes to heating fuels and fossil energy plants to fund it. Start a major campaign to educate people to keep temperatures around 68 (winter) to 76 degrees (summer). And encourage use of ceiling fans.