Comment on Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 2 months agoit’s a bit of a circular reference though, right?
Yeah those 57 cause 80% of CO2… but it’s because their gas/oil/coal companies and most of our houses and cars run off those. So we DO need to also change the end user.
UsernameHere@lemmings.world 2 months ago
The end user doesn’t care if their house is warmed by a gas furnace or a an electric heat pump so long as their house is warm and it’s affordable.
Those 57 companies are the ones that don’t want to change and they lobby, bribe, lie, cheat and steal to keep their hold on the market.
Those 57 companies are both the root cause of the problem and the easiest thing to change.
throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Yes but you still need to implement that change. You have to change millions of people’s houses to switch their type of heating And replace cars, etc It will require huge changes for individuals, you can’t just turn off the big oil companies as nice as it would be to have a simple fix
UsernameHere@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Oil companies are the reason we haven’t already made the change to electric transportation and renewable energy decades ago.
It could have already happened if it wasn’t for these companies trying to prevent it.
throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
That isn’t exactly related to what we’re taking about. I’m not saying stopping the use of oil is bad, I’m saying it requires changes for the individual
Yes oil companies have lobbied, you also have people in industry that aren’t going to vote to remove their own jobs either. Makes it tricky. I don’t think we should have allowed companies to get away with this btw but historically I’m not sure public support would be there
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can’t magically change heating source for the whole affected households though. And the end user will definitely care in case of retrofit with the impact of the changeS needed. Plus costs unless you also magically address that but electricity is still very expensive.