Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls
    • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      We need to go back to a 90% or higher tax rate on income over some threshold, and fix the loopholes that let wealthy people have income that doesn’t count as income. Especially the “take a loan and pay that back and all the activity there doesn’t count as income for tax purposes” bullshit.

      And tax corporate profits more, and make a corporate tax system that rewards real R&D (while auditing to prevent fake tax shelter R&D), rewards higher employee salaries and better benefits (instead of taxing those), and rewards infrastructure investments like new factories but also investments in efficiency, water use reduction, etc.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Voting is great, but lobbying, gerrymandering and PACs can subvert the democratic process. Historically, this is where protests have shown to be helpful.

    • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Have to be careful on this one as you don’t want to cause more harm than good. Make sure it’s all focused on disabling pumps and valves while not increasing the likelihood of releases.

      Some idiots would go around blowing things up causing massive environmental damage when what we really want to do is just leave the stuff in the tanks it’s already in, or in the ground it’s already in.

  • MonkRome@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Transportation pales in comparison to heating and cooling homes and businesses. The single greatest thing we can do to reduce climate change from a policy standpoint involves reducing that. From work at home, to multi family zoning, to converting business skyscrapers into living space, to increasing efficiency and fossil fuels from energy production. And all that does a lot to improve transportation environmental costs as well.

    • mynachmadarch@kbin.social
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      5 months ago

      If only denser housing structures and public transportation and work from home didn’t all keep getting voted down and shouted down by NIMBYs so we had a better way. I get out and vote and write letters to elected officials. Not much more many of us can do.

      • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Huh so you’re telling me most people want nothing to do with living in crammed apartment buildings?

        Wow shocked pikachu face.

        • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          It’s possible to build nice apartments that have a good amount of space to live in. But that’s not as profitable per sq ft for the property management companies that have been buying up all the land.

          There’s also some minor regulatory reforms that are probably needed to allow a little more flexibility in building design, specifically around the required number/type/location of stairwells. But we have to be careful about that one because we don’t want to make death traps.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    Exclusively working from home since 2018 so I cut out 10 un-necessary driving trips a week. x2 since my wife is WFH now too.

    Installed solar panels to run the house during the day, so our working hours are fully solar powered.

    I guess that’s all we can do for now.

        • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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          5 months ago

          Been doing that all my life. For that you have water tight bags on your bike.

          Also, you’ll have much more smaller supermarkets dotted all over the place, instead of one Walmart for an entire city. You just go and quickly buy the stuff you will use that day.

          It really isn’t an issue