My wife and I were discussing this the other day actually. I was born in 86 so I'm not terribly old, but even I remember growing up as a kid in Idaho that one didn't just go to the grocery store to buy salmon--it wasn't really available. If you wanted salmon, you had to plan for it. Nowadays I can find salmon at every grocery store at any inpulse. Is it nice? Yes. Necessary? No.
Some people are changing things about their lives. It might be 1% of the population, but that 1% should be put on a pedestal instead of treated as non-existent like is happening here. A much more accurate statement would be:
"Only 1% of the population is selflessly making the choice to sacrifice quality of life/convenience to significantly decrease their emissions, whereas 99% is not doing this at all."
quite the contrary. trying to grow food where it needs a fuckton of water and fertilizer (and pesticides and herbicides).
because of idiotic subsidies.
similarly it's not the heating/cooling, it's the lack of modern insulation and heat pumps.
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multi hour commutes are bad anyway, but even a few minutes in cars every day at the same time as everyone else is bad (because it's not scalable)
Thats an improvement in quality if lude, held back by efficient free market