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Surprised they don't include Active Solar Water Heating Systems.
Those solar collectors are way more efficient than solar PV panels and the only energy usage is for a pump. We're just now installing one.
I hope so!
Thanks, that's fair.
My own dilemma is that I do not have access to, for example, people such as David McKay, so all I can do is avoid Royal Bank of Canada like the plague it is, keep as far away as possible from anyone or anything that deals with them, call out greenwashing where I see it <~ soft paywall, a particularly egregious example, and try to convince people I talk to to do likewise. So my focus is what language best convinces sceptics to 'do likewise'.
The hope - maybe faint - is that sufficient numbers see the light that we force change by 'voting' with our aggregate $$, since money is the only thing these people understand.
I maybe naive, and I am obviously aware that some are going beyond that.
The audience you’re referring to are adults not young children.
I hope you are right.
100% agree with "say the truth", it's a matter of the words we use. The purpose of communicating with this audience IMO is to a) communicate facts, and b) to trigger some action. Myself I'm not sure that telling this audience any more detail than the above changes what they do.
For example, if I tell someone that the last time CO2 levels were this high, sea levels were about 230 feet higher (pdf), I'm telling them the truth, yes, but I'm not sure they will do anything different.
My opinion, I respect we're all pulling in the same direction.
That captures the "feelpinion" pretty well IMO.
There's some detailed believable descriptions of what individual people experience in that 2.5 world (in the US at least) in Stephen Markley's The Deluge.
Not pleasant at all.
We (humanity) may have stumbled out the climate starting gate, but we still have to run the race.