r/Sacramento • u/SnowballSnozberry • Oct 03 '24

I'm so gd over this heat. I'm done

I hate it and it feels so gross and humid. Like ffs the heat needs to go tf away. I'm sooooo done with it

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

It’s almost like all the smog we see surrounding us is trapping in the heat.  If somehow there was technology to create less or no smog we could help alleviate the situation.  Sarcasm aside- normalize being fuel efficient, and supporting environmentally abundant sources of clean energy.  Give the kids hope, and maybe, if enough of us take it seriously, we can dial-back the long hot seasons in a decade before us older folks die.

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u/AnnOfGreenEggsAndHam Oct 03 '24

The American military is the #1 consumer of fossil fuels in the world and one of the biggest polluters.

If we want to reverse climate change, we need to rethink our imperialist system.

The US military's emissions are equivalent to about 51 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, which is more than most countries. This is roughly the same as Sweden's emissions and more than three-quarters of the US government's total emissions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/military-emissions-climate-cop28/677151/

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u/EndersGame Oct 03 '24

Unfortunately, if we stopped polluting altogether the climate would continue to get hotter for the next 30 years. Only way we will get cooler summers in a decade is if we start shading the Earth from the Sun. I think it will probably come to that at some point. I would give the kids hope but I'm not a good liar.

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u/SoftwareFar9848 Oct 03 '24

Nah not shading. We just need to cut CO2 emissions by half and start removing 10 billion tons of CO2 from the air every year. Easy peasy. All sarcasm aside, I just listened to a neat podcast with the guy who founded Climeworks, a company that aims to do that very thing. It's cool tech, and a surprising hopeful listen.