and you've got about another 90 million tons... I believe retrofitting, mothballing or replacing these plants alone could make a rather huge difference... but that'd mean taking them on... when its much easier to advocate carbon trading... yeesh.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> The guy also loves big old cars. And he prefers to blame corporations,
> > rather than things like a fondness for driving, for our ecological
> problems.
> >
>
> Which, to a certain extent, he's right to do. Less than a third of US CO2
> emissions come from road transportation, with under 20% caused by
> consumer-style vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks). Unfortunately I
> don't have an individual/company use breakdown on hand (
> http://www.iacdctransportation.com/research/vmtdrivinganalysis.pdf). Hell,
> as Derrick Jensen recently noted, even if every last American undertook
> every single lifestyle modification advocated for us by Al Gore, that would
> reduce overall US carbon emissions by only 22% (
> http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801).
> Hair-shirted
> attempts to prevent catastrophic climate change by reducing individual
> consumption, while ignoring the far greater effects of industrial and
> military consumption, are at best innocent hobbyism, and at worst a
> potentially lethal distraction.
>
> --
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> lytlað."
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