- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3616688
As soon as today, Michigan lawmakers are expected to vote on a sweeping package of environmental bills, including legislation that requires the state to reach 100 percent clean energy by 2040.
Germany managed to cut their emissions:
The only real question is whether they could have cut it faster if they had not shuttered nuclear power at the same time; it’s not actually clear because they had fairly expensive to operate nuclear facilities.
While overall Germany has managed to cut it’s emissions since the 80’s, that little uptick since 2020 was what I was referring to when I said they would choose what was cheaper over what was cleaner. Anyway, my digs at Germany are beside the point.
Proposals like this often sound good on paper, but in practice if they are just using accounting tricks to achieve “net-zero” emissions, they are ultimately nothing more then feel-good measures that will be ignored as soon as it’s economically or politically expedient.