L’impronta di carbonio della Svizzera è tra le più alte al mondo
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-change/why-switzerlands-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/88761356
di Realistic-Lie-8031
L’impronta di carbonio della Svizzera è tra le più alte al mondo
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-change/why-switzerlands-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/88761356
di Realistic-Lie-8031
12 commenti
This does not take aviation into account. Apparently its not counted in, and according to World in Data, Switzerland is one of the top 5 countries in the world for flights pr capita.
No surprising, we can generate as much renewable energy as we want, recycle as much as possible, but it will never offset the huge consumption that comes with our wealthy lifestyle
Stop fucking driving everywhere. It’s not that hard to reduce your carbon footprint, especially living here, with our incredible public transport infrastructure and beautiful nature trails.
At the individual level, there are only a few things we can do to reduce our emissions:
* Stop flying. This is the biggest step you can do, we are talking about 3 tonnes of kgCO2eq for an intercontinental flight.
* Reduce your car usage, on average we emit 2 tonnes of CO2eq
* Invest in/ Move to an home with good isolation, and a heat pump.
* Reduce our consumption of apparel
* Reduce drastically beef consumption [beef emits 3x more CO2eq than chicken per kg]
The rest requires a structural change and there are little we can do unless we vote.
And let’s stop with the perfect solution, any of the points above will impact [especially flight], and we should try to tick all the bullets, the rest have marginal effects.
We import everything, so we don’t have to produce anything with nasty factories, easy green economy! You should see Liechtenstein and Luxembourg as well.
While our emissions are globally going down, it is still way too high per capita. The two biggest producing sectors are transport and industry. [source](https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/climate/state/data/greenhouse-gas-inventory.html)
…I’ll just sit here waiting for the inevitable deluge of comments arguing that this is unfair, pointing fingers at other countries, and reminding everyone that “Switzerland can’t save the climate on its own.”
Private Jets are one of the biggest problems in carbon footprints…and since switzerland is attractiv for rich people who probably own private jets…so you can count 1+1 together…
I hate the “do less of xy” mentality here. It just dosn’t work.
Everyone most likely even the commenters themselves don’t act on it.
I say do the opposite, do more!
Here is what you can do:
– Work in the renewable energy industry
– Invest in renewable energy companies
– Install Solar PV on your house, even 2 balcony solar Panels help:
[https://www.erneuer.bar/](https://www.erneuer.bar/)
– Drive an EV if you have to drive (5x less energy used, way less CO2 and other emissions)
– Efficient homes and heating. A cheap solution that is overlooked often is Split heatpumps.
Ofc geothermal heatpums are great, but not every home owner has 50k to spend.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBLmbihbGJM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBLmbihbGJM)
I hate the hypocritical bullshit. I know very few people that actually act on their ideallistic standarts.
Most people just like to think and talk about it but don’t act like it.
What is not clear from the article is whether the average Swiss consumer actually is responsible for more imported emissions than similar people in other countries. As a proportion of the total, imports are higher, but the data it presents also shows that domestic generation is lower. If you reduce domestic emissions then importing a a fixed level will lead to a rise as a proportion.
I also note this statement “The chemical and pharmaceutical industries, for example, import the most greenhouse gas emissions as an economic sector” that entirely fails to give any indication of how much of the production of those industries is consumed domestically as opposed to being exported. If imported emissions are an important factor (and they are), then so are exported emissions.
The article attempts to raise an important issue, but the data it presents is far from clear in terms of the specific narrative it is presenting.
Is it tolerated on this sub to say that I do not worry at all about the consequences of rising CO2 levels ?
Yes, this is long known. Even if right-wing parties usually claim the opposite by ignoring consumption-based emissions.
Simplified:
More wealth = more consumption = more CO2