• WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world
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          I read that last year, actually. Potential spoilers:

          Just difference of opinion but I wasn’t a fan. I obviously think the subject matter is interesting and I liked the sociopolitical basis of the story. But I felt it was bogged way down by an author who was trying to make several parts into some weirdly verbose report to give it a sense of realism (I seem to recall an entire chapter being a written-out list of fictional committee names that were being created to fight climate change). At the same time, when he was writing about the terrorist attacks like swarms of drones attacking infrastructure, it felt really vague and Hollywood, dare I say, even boomer-esque. Just a bit lofty for the sake of action.

          You’re in good company though, I remember reddit fuckin loved that book so it’s probably just not for me. I’m also sensitive to hype and it didn’t live up to it.

          • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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            Yeah, not every book is for everyone. Doesn’t really change whether or not I liked the book.

            The book has flaws for sure, but it seemed like it was almost as alarmist as it should be. It seemed utopian to me in the end. He completely missed out on how fascists are going to react to all this for instance.

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      Have to be careful on this one as you don’t want to cause more harm than good. Make sure it’s all focused on disabling pumps and valves while not increasing the likelihood of releases.

      Some idiots would go around blowing things up causing massive environmental damage when what we really want to do is just leave the stuff in the tanks it’s already in, or in the ground it’s already in.

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    Exclusively working from home since 2018 so I cut out 10 un-necessary driving trips a week. x2 since my wife is WFH now too.

    Installed solar panels to run the house during the day, so our working hours are fully solar powered.

    I guess that’s all we can do for now.

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      If you’re looking for other things to do:

      • vote to address climate change (some people can only really vote to reduce the damage done slightly)
      • Reduce meat consumption (doesn’t even have to be zero meat)
      • Reduce flying Regardless, thanks for driving less, and helping the cause!
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          Been doing that all my life. For that you have water tight bags on your bike.

          Also, you’ll have much more smaller supermarkets dotted all over the place, instead of one Walmart for an entire city. You just go and quickly buy the stuff you will use that day.

          It really isn’t an issue

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    Voting is great, but lobbying, gerrymandering and PACs can subvert the democratic process. Historically, this is where protests have shown to be helpful.

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    The most powerful action? Make our politicians start investing heavily in bicycle infrastructure and public transportation infrastructure.

    This car culture is insane

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      We need to go back to a 90% or higher tax rate on income over some threshold, and fix the loopholes that let wealthy people have income that doesn’t count as income. Especially the “take a loan and pay that back and all the activity there doesn’t count as income for tax purposes” bullshit.

      And tax corporate profits more, and make a corporate tax system that rewards real R&D (while auditing to prevent fake tax shelter R&D), rewards higher employee salaries and better benefits (instead of taxing those), and rewards infrastructure investments like new factories but also investments in efficiency, water use reduction, etc.

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    Personal vehicles are the largest single source of emissions in the US.

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      If only denser housing structures and public transportation and work from home didn’t all keep getting voted down and shouted down by NIMBYs so we had a better way. I get out and vote and write letters to elected officials. Not much more many of us can do.

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      wow, didn’t think that was the case, but based on 2021’s numbers, its true. Transportation from vehicles, including personal vehicles, accounts for 29% of emissions. This is the largest source, right above electricity generation (25%). Thought transportation would be top 3 but that something else would overtake it. source

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    First thing to come to mind is: Voting. Wherever you are.

    EDIT: Wow, guess i am not alone with that,

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    Transportation pales in comparison to heating and cooling homes and businesses. The single greatest thing we can do to reduce climate change from a policy standpoint involves reducing that. From work at home, to multi family zoning, to converting business skyscrapers into living space, to increasing efficiency and fossil fuels from energy production. And all that does a lot to improve transportation environmental costs as well.