Only if the rest of the world followed suit. And I highly doubt 100% of other developed and developing nations would have. It also doesn’t fix emissions from cars, planes, shipping vessels, etc. If carbon levels were 50% what they are I also doubt the propaganda would be much different.
We are hearing crazy talk about using Fischer-Tropsch chemistry to make jet fuel for the same reason we are hearing so much about direct air capture and other pipe dreams.
If we really decarbonized everything easy to decarbonize (including cars) we'd have very little to worry about.
Moving the focus to airplanes and other science fiction, we create an excuse to not decarbonize what can be decarbonized.
This is just false. There's a lot of sectors that produce emissions besides electricity and transportation. They aren't exactly getting their energy through other means, which still produce emissions. The climate crisis is a very difficult problem to solve and it isn't helping pretending that the only thing we need to do is get electric cars and convert our electric generation sources to zero emission sources. It is far more complicated than that. We also have to do it in a way that the rest of the world (which is 85% of emissions) can afford.
Fully agree. As a pro nuclear person, I don't get why people do this propaganda. It only hurts our position as it is very dishonest. Though I also really dislike how Americentric the global climate crisis is. Yeah, America is a big contributor, but only 15%. I don't see anyone else really stepping up to solve it. If America isn't going to act, why isn't _your_ country stepping up? It's the global equivalent of "well the rich guy isn't playing fair, so why should I?"
