Quote:First of all, a new car costs way more carbon than continuing to drive a very old one. So if you have to buy a car, then an electric car is great. Otherwise. . . keeping that old beater a couple more years is better.That would be more of an argument against the Green New Deal (which would force almost everyone to buy a new car) than for it, don't you think?
Quote:They also consume more expensive foods, which are expensive because they are imported from abroad.It's not like it necessarily took more CO2 to produce that food. Meat produced near-by costs more CO2 than fruits and vegetables produced far away and having traveled to here.
Quote:Innovation means an increase in productivity, and productivity is fueled by. . . fuel.What are you talking about? Productivity today usually requires electricity, and it can well be produced from nuclear energy or the solar energy.
Quote:And yet the carbon footprints of the wealthy are by far the largest.Then how it is that the environment tends to be more polluted in poorer countries?
