True, but the question is, how do we implement these practices on other than an individual basis without drastic human population decrease and draconian—and I mean draconian if to be really effective—government intervention? This is the question of questions, asked many times by me and others, and I for one don’t know the answer. Do you? Does anyone here?
In the interim, we must do what we can with the tools at hand, starting with that master evil of our time, AGW, against which not nearly enough is being done anywhere, certainly not in the US where a “denier” administration is actively engaged in rolling back what little progress has been made. No hope here, except the ballot box. Fingers crossed. And then there’s the Amazon and the other rain forests, all of which are going to soon disappear without some sort of effective internationalization. And what are the chances of that? The phasing out of fossil fuels in favor of wind, tidal and solar; there might be some hope there, given the ever increasing efficiency of the technologies involved. Industrial-scale agriculture and animal husbandry with its heavy dependence on noxious chemicals of various kinds; hard to know what to do about these, though the technology behind the “nothing burger” might be a possible starting point..
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Sadly I disagree with your appraisal. I disbelieve the idea that AGW is the master evil of our time. The oceans are a great moderator, so nothing drastic will happen during the next century or so. That buys us time to move to emission free power technologies. If I had to pick one, I'd nominate corruption as the master evil of our time, but it has a long and sordid history throughout other cultures and ages as well, with no durable remedies yet found.
Imho, the various 'green' energy offerings all provide at best very intermittent power, at exuberant cost. They would be unworkable except for massive subsidies which detract from more plausible solutions such as more advanced nuclear power, currently the only reliable source of emission free and fully scalable power.
In terms of the rain forests and their destruction, it is an outrage that truly calls into question the legitimacy of the national governments involved, in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Solutions are well above my pay grade however.