The Inflation Reduction Act also looks to change individual behavior on a scale that will add up to meaningful cuts to emissions by offering tax credits designed to wean the public off oil, gas and coal. states on a website that highlights 10 actions individuals can take to address the climate crisis. From the way we travel, to the electricity we use, the food we eat, and the things we buy, we can make a difference,” the U.N.
Huh/AP)Ĭontrary to Gates’s view, the United Nations has long advocated basing lifestyle choices on how they affect rising global temperatures. While it’s easy to blame oil companies for rising global temperatures - a consequence they were well aware of for decades - the fact remains that they continue to have plenty of customers for their primary product.Ī charging station for electric vehicles in Skokie, Ill. After all, a 2017 report by CDP, an environmental nonprofit, found that 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions were produced by just 100 companies, the largest emitters being oil giants ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron. We’re going to find our way to zero emissions as fast as possible.”Ībsent technological breakthroughs, individual actions regarding energy and emissions will ultimately fall short, the thinking goes. “Bill Gates is pursuing a small, modular next-generation nuclear capacity. “There are a lot of possibilities out there,” he said. Kerry singled out TerraPower, a company backed by Gates that is working on developing advanced nuclear fission reactors, as one hopeful example. “Fifty percent of the reductions we have to make to get to net zero by 2050 or 2045 are going to come from technologies that we don’t yet have,” Kerry told the BBC in 2021. Even John Kerry, President Biden's climate envoy, has signaled that new technology will need to be developed for the world to achieve emissions goals.
The notion that climate change is too big a problem to be solved by individual lifestyle decisions is commonly held by many, like Gates, who are working to address what they see as a crisis. Anybody wants to evangelize that, they’re welcome to,” Gates said. “Will all Indians become vegetarians? Will all Americans become vegetarians? I wouldn’t want to count on it.
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