[nico_h]

It could be mitigated by alternative infrastructure: better insulation and ventilation, for example passive housing.

Diminish need for air conditioning by adding blinds or other sun shades on the appropriate sides. Use air foils on cargo ships, making them follow trade winds and sea currents (trading polution for increased transit time (increase crew cost)).

Make people commute less (works for white collar jobs, but blue collar?).

Increase veganism.

Look into having agriculture require less chemicals through use of perennials or alternative varieties and crop rotations.

I don't know enough about other industries to do more than yell "electrify all the things" and mandate factories to use renewable electricity, put solar panels on the roof etc...

[AstralStorm]

Unfortunately walls are the major way houses get hot. You could use something with big thermal capacity but it's expensive and heavy. AC or evaporative cooling cannot be avoided, but can be made more efficient.

Increased transit time for ships is from month to many months. Not worth it.

Veganism faces a big problem with water use.

Agriculture is being looked into all the time, but cheap always wins. We need to feed these billions of people somehow, and crop rotation won't do.

Mandating greenwashing is what we have now. The area to cover with renewables to power just a single smelter is huge.

[bryanlarsen]

> The area to cover with renewables to power just a single smelter is huge.

That would be an issue only if that prevented the land from being used for other things. Wind power generation doesn't prevent farming on the land or prevent fishing on the ocean. Solar can be deployed on rooftops or parking lots. Solar developments often support grazing animals underneath the solar panels.

[bleepblorp]

The offshore wind farms I have seen photos of have the individual wind turbines packed too closely together to safely navigate a fishing boat between them.

Fish are not uniformly distributed, however, so the fishing impacts of offshore wind farms can probably be reduced by not installing wind farms in fishing grounds.