The transition from The Fossil Fuel Age to the Renewables Age continues apace. It’s worth noting solar, wind and batteries have years more price falls ahead. In the 2030s, country after country will have near 100% renewables powered grids.
World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says
You missed my point completely. It’s not specifically about carbon emissions, it’s about all the environmental issues, and the personal responsibility we all have to do what we can to solve it. There are thousands of little things that individuals can do. Each of those people doing a thing on their own adds up. I get annoyed when comments like yours discourage those little actions. If all 8 billion people on the planet would do little things like recycle properly, things like the Pacific garbage patch wouldn’t exist.
2.6M pounds of Houston recyclables tossed in landfill: Records reveal city broke its own recycling rules hundreds of times.
Of the estimated 2.6 million pounds of recyclables dumped where they didn’t belong, 1.1 million pounds—or 41 percent—were dumped after March 1, when the city’s new, state-of-the-art recycling center started processing recyclables.
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If a tens of thousands of people do the right thing at the individual level and then a dozen people do the wrong thing out of expediency and profit, and there’s no mechanism for firing and replacing the irresponsible managers, then the efforts of the many are squandered to the profit of the few.
There’s also the factor of peer pressure the more one recycles the more encouraged everyone else is to do the same.