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by serallak 591 days ago
> shipping

This is the odd one here.

Sure, shipping/transportation as it is is highly polluting. But it's not something from which we as a civilization can opt out.

We have to figure out how to reduce the impact, but having less of shipping is a non starter.

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A significant portion of the global shipping [1] is the transportation of fossil fuels, so a general transition to renewables would contribute to reducing that.

[1] 40% according to https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2023/12/05/how-w...