Social and corporate media are full of ideas for human designed carbon-capture and renewable energy sources.
What is not understood is that according to physics, human activity generates heat. This happens no matter what the fuel is. So, if that activity is building a solar array, or a carbon-capture device, that activity generates heat.
The only way to reduce heat is to reduce activity.
One way is to address the biggest problems first. Ten percent of humans use half the energy. A lot of this energy is wasted by cars sitting in traffic jams. But cars are not even necessary. Humans have been on earth 200,000 years, but cars less than 150 years. We don't need them. There are many other benefits to ending cars besides the obvious reduction of fuel waste.
By abolishing the private auto, we can:
What is not understood is that according to physics, human activity generates heat. This happens no matter what the fuel is. So, if that activity is building a solar array, or a carbon-capture device, that activity generates heat.
The only way to reduce heat is to reduce activity.
One way is to address the biggest problems first. Ten percent of humans use half the energy. A lot of this energy is wasted by cars sitting in traffic jams. But cars are not even necessary. Humans have been on earth 200,000 years, but cars less than 150 years. We don't need them. There are many other benefits to ending cars besides the obvious reduction of fuel waste.
By abolishing the private auto, we can:
- reduce energy waste
- take away the major driver of sprawl and growth
- reduce inequality of energy use
- make cities attractive
- free up money for education and healthcare to make birth rates fall
- turn suburbs into permaculture carbon sinks
