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I have never and will never make a purchasing choice based on global warming


Why?


Because greenwashing with batteries mined by children and vegan soy-based food from toxic crops are just a way for snobs for virtue signaling.


You might want to look into the science a bit more. The carbon burn is already having consequences all over the place. Transportation and energy are about 65 percent of the emissions, and solar, batteries, and electric vehicles are pretty simple ways to mitigate the harms. Cows are only about six percent of emissions, so relatively less important.

I don’t understand why this simple physical problem of absorbing more infrared radiation has become confused with class warfare. I don’t think the US manufactured batteries are more tied up in child,labor than like regular clothes and chocolate, and ending child labor across the globe is mostly independent of how we power transportation and energy.

There is a lot of greenwashing, but actually converting sectors of the economy to non-fossil fuel is not an example of that.


Just read a great book about this - Apocalypse Never. It's mostly just alarmism and white guilt mongering.




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