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by mattigames 1161 days ago
Well said. Saying "everyone will be carbon literate in 30 years" is as accurate as it would have been predicting back in the the 60s that people now would be "asbestos literate". And just like the asbestos problem was fixed by making it illegal the same thing happens with carbon, of course not 100% of it (unlike asbestos) because that's impossible but close enough, for example it's ridiculous single use plastics are still legal in so many places, it's ridiculous high speed trains are not ubiquious by now, is ridiculous there are so many places where going by car is faster than public transportion, as well as many other laws and infrastructure that are long overdue, nothing to do with making everybodys job to bean-count "their" emissions.