We could delete every car from existence ever, and it wouldn’t be a drop in the bucket. Cargo ships burn the worst fuel and excrete a years worth of car emissions per day. The Nash Equilibrium to all this - the math says it’s still the best way to do it. Banning single use plastics, regulating petroleum products, and nuking China will all help alleviate climate change.
I’m all for the other solutions you mentioned, besides nuking China, but we can’t pretend like meat consumption and car use aren’t large factors in climate change that we’ll have to address.
We could delete every car from existence ever, and it wouldn’t be a drop in the bucket. Cargo ships burn the worst fuel and excrete a years worth of car emissions per day. The Nash Equilibrium to all this - the math says it’s still the best way to do it. Banning single use plastics, regulating petroleum products, and nuking China will all help alleviate climate change.
According to this compelling article, a significant portion of cargo ships could be electrified.
You got some sources for that claim, cause transportation accounts for 28% of u.s. ghg emissions and 57% of that is light duty vehicles, only 3% is ships and boats. So if we delete every car emissions, at least in the u.s. , would go down by 15%, not enormous but also not a drop in the bucket.
I’m all for the other solutions you mentioned, besides nuking China, but we can’t pretend like meat consumption and car use aren’t large factors in climate change that we’ll have to address.