None of this stuff really matters for climate change. The big items for us as individuals are:
- how much & how clean we drive & travel
- how much & how clean we heat & cool our homes (and we should heat and cool as much as we need to be safe)
- the carbon intensity of what we eat
- do we vote
Let folks read a book if they wanna. Climate change is a systems problem. The Biden Admin already set a 2030 emissions target with the UN & a zero by 2050 target. But guess what— in the next 4 years the US has to set a 2035 target. Who sets the target, & let’s be real, if there is a target, matters.
There was a whole online content segment in the 2000s & 2010s of telling folks, which is better, paper or plastic, how to green your kitchen, etc. It’s so small ball & doesn’t matter. Do the big stuff, but more importantly work for systems change. We passed the Inflation Reduction Act with ONE VOTE.
My job in the White House was to know where every existing ton of GHGs is, how they will change over time, & what we need to do to get to net-zero by 2050. The Inflation Reduction Act is a huge win. We also launched the Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative, it’s good www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo....
