[space_fountain]

It would also hurt normal people as driving, heating, electric all basically doubled. Not saying it’s not worth doing, but climate isn’t hard because of a bunch of greedy oil execs (though they obviously don’t make things easier)

[mullingitover]

I have some bad news about how future normal people are going to be hurt by drought, rising sea levels, and all the other effects of climate change.

[asynchronous]

Yeah but normal people tend to refuse to be the ones to suffer when we have private jets producing more than our cars emit in a year in a single flight. We’ll destroy the upper class before we let them use climate change to destroy the lower classes.

[space_fountain]

Note this is for a single car. Overall cars produced way more CO2. General aviation in general which I think includes private planes only admits maybe a 5th as much as passenger vehicles. That’s actually way higher than I expected, but again points to the fact that it isn’t a rich other causing global warming it’s more or less us. Though of course the rich have a vastly expanded impact and the truly poor do the least, but there are way less rich people

https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P10153PC.pdf

[space_fountain]

Sure but all those problems come later and feel less certain than literally doubling every energy bill. Thus why it’s politically hard