Pretty much.
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It means that the economic benefits of being the world's low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.
It's fairly expensive to generate electricity by burning stuff, even biomass. A decent wind, solar, and storage rollout will displace most of it quite cheaply.
The corn ethanol thing is likely to continue in the US as long as we're still burning gasoline in cars.
Yep. Going to need to end that too.
Yes, we've wanted too long for zero impact.
We haven't waited too long to still end up with a habitable planet. Failing to act now puts that at risk.
Hardly; it's largely a matter of how quickly we phase out fossil fuels. Wait longer, and you get to scrap equipment before the ends of its normal useful life instead of getting full use out of what you pay for.
The sooner we act, the less drastic the measures needed are. That's the reality of it, and something I'll keep on pushing for.
It would be better to impose a ban on new gas stoves, but the gas companies reliably fund campaigns for state legislature, so we didn't have the votes to get something like that as far as the governor.
The fossil fuels industry funds a big chunk of their patronage machine. So no surprises.
My solution to that is to maintain a camping stove and a connector to a 20lb propane tank. You can cook for a couple weeks with that if need be, but don't have to breathe the fumes on a routine basis.
Because the old folks who own stuff grew up during a period of ever-rising crime rates as cases of mild lead poisoning from gasoline caused a huge increase in violent crime. They don't get that it's somewhere around as safe as it was during the 1950s.