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I'm running an outdoor pizza oven, outdoor grill, and indoor gas range on NG. If I had to move to an area like new san jose developments that don't have natural gas hookups that'd be pretty sad. Blaming my food cooking for global warming would be a joke especially since 2/3 of those can run on wood.

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We need to decarbonize the economy, including food prep. 2 weeks ago, British Columbia Canada recorded temps in the F 120s. Just this past week a huge series of flash floods destroyed a lot of towns and killed 130+ people in Germany and the Netherlands. If we don't attempt to decarbonize the economy, its going to get much much worse.

Banning gas stoves would reduce total emissions by how much? Focusing on something like this seems silly to me when 20% of all electricity in the US is still produced in coal power plants (and another 40% in natural gas ones).

It's not just natural gas stoves, it's natural gas heating and infrastructure, including extraction. All of it needs to go and we need to use low-carbon energy sources in its place.

It sucks, and it's a huge change. But it's unavoidable, and the longer we wait the worse it will be for everyone.

So every natural disaster hence forth is global warming cool.

Go after the fucking businesses for their waste. There are a dozen boats that produce more carbon than all the gas stoves in the world.

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