Mysogyny in India long predates influencers.

It has been 23 years since the United States last raised its excise tax on gasoline.

Well, fragile masculinity is.

Or maybe because fire codes were written due to all the deaths.

Now with safe shutoffs and requirements for dedicated circuits, we can allow it.

Why tell him at all. Just distract him…

Ask him to tell the story of how he was pulled out of the World Trade Center rubble and let his demented brain confabulate.

Please explain my ignorance. It sounds like a group of people trying to justify lifestyle choices and pretending they are powerless.

I have even been told how horrible it is to live without a car in a city where I literally lived without a car without issue.

How much does it cost to buy, maintain, fuel, park, and insure a gasoline car?

No one said choices are easy. That doesn’t mean they aren’t choices.

Plenty of people in the Twin Cities live with only a bike and public transit. I was one of them and I never felt the massive disadvantage you write about. You just need to choose to live in an appropriate location.

Again, it’s a choice.

Little is from beef. Beef, while the worst for emissions per calorie, is a tiny part of the overall food chain. Grains dominate.

You will get closer, but I suspect your nation is simply too wealthy to hit the target. The UK is 2.25x higher than two tonnes per capita.

It might be achievable if you cycle, never step foot on an aircraft, eat a local vegetarian diet, live in a small space heated with a heat pump, and buy solely used durable products. Again, there’s too much carbon in the supply chain and government services like road maintenance

Of course, you are miles ahead of the US.

Gasoline powered car ownership is not mandated by law and every country has cities where a car-free lifestyle is possible.

It appears you chose to move to a small town near Des Moines. North of you are the Twin Cities where you can live car free with public transit or a bicycle if you are physically capable.

So yes, you do have a choice. The privilege is the money for a car.

If you buy food, you buy diesel. It’s what’s in the tractors and delivery trucks.

This is why it’s literally impossible for an American to live a two tonne CO2 lifestyle. Emissions are imbedded in the supply chains and government.

I am conflicted on this issue. Commercial aircraft are the public transit of global movement. They should be the last curtailed.

Instead, shut down private jet airports like Biggen Hill for the real climate criminals, increase taxes dramatically on first and business class seats to pay for carbon offsets, and raise SAF share requirements.

Heathrow is already too close to London. Rebuild the north runway at Gatwick as planned and restore HS2 instead to cut domestic flights usage.

Yes, Minnesota has more solar potential than Germany. However, German electricity is 2.5x more expensive per kWh than Minnesota due to low efficiency decisions like turning off nuclear. This is having severe consequences to industry and those unable to afford to install and run air conditioning.

Solar in Minnesota is >60% more costly per kWh generated than wind. Yes, building solar in Becker recycles the transmission lines and gives a different covariance, but I am skeptical it is cheaper than simply building 100 more wind turbines and battery storage next to them to transmit in times of low generation.

Yes, that is the argument coal companies paid “environmentalists” to make, and thanks to 40 years of stalled nuclear development, we have killed the planet.

It is extremely expensive to set up because we can’t standardize it due to lawsuits. The hope is small modular reactors and new generations will change that. As we safely extend the lifespan of nuclear power plants, the upfront costs are being amortized over longer and longer periods making them cheaper.

It is not eternally earth toxic. More responsible countries than the United States recycle spent nuclear fuel. 95% of spent fuel was reused. What remains are highly radioactive fission products with short half-lives (30 years) which are safe after a few decay rounds, and long half-life but low radioactive actinides where the main concern is that you don’t ingest them.

For a heavily nuclear powered country like France, the total waste produced from the beginning of its nuclear power program until today that cannot be recycled would cover one football field a few feet deep. France also has the lowest CO2 equivalent per capita emissions from its energy sector of any developed nation on Earth.

The entire planet is cooking. Hundreds of thousands will start to die annually. We must educate ourselves about solutions and implement every last one that works. Nuclear power has the lowest death rate of any power source per kilowatt hour generated. Please learn about it.

No, it is exposing the problem with open loop water cooling of anything.

Closed loop/forced still works, it will just be slightly less efficient in higher temperatures. So is solar is higher temperatures.

Some Minnesota utilities do subsidize electricity prices if you heat with it. All utilities provide strong rebates for installing heat pumps.

Yup. The secret is wind is just cheaper in places with strong, near constant resources.

Canada will not be immune from global food shortages and vastly altered precipitation patterns.

I assume this was I-90 west of Rochester, which is where most of the wind is sited. Sadly it is nowhere near enough and still only produces 25% of the state’s electrical needs whereas neighboring South Dakota and Iowa are over 50%.

Solar and wind have very different potentials in the state. Minnesota is at the Northern terminus of the wind corridor which they take advantage of. However, it is one of the worst states for solar irradiance potential.

Sherco solar replaces 2.4 GW base load coal with a planned 910 MW of solar and only 3 GWh of storage. This comes across as insufficient in a snowy winter in a state where conversion to electrical heating is a must.