• SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Gas stoves are very meaningful. Natural gas is mostly methane, which has 30 times the greenhouse effect of CO2. Activists have been pushing to eliminate natural gas use for years now, but the natural gas lobby has been pushing back hard.

        But you’re right, this is no silver bullet, because no silver bullet exists. I’m happy with government making a lot of small regulations against corporations. Require smaller packaging, less waste, less single use items, more clean up, etc. They add up.

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          1 year ago

          Right, but how much of that gas is used in home stoves vs corporate use? It’s pretty common to try to pin pollution on the consumers when they only account for a small percentage of the problem.

          If they were actually trying to enact meaningful change they would give the EPA their teeth back.

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            1 year ago

            You are correct that consumer use is small. But gas stoves and gas heating in homes mean justifying gas lines throughout a whole city. This is why the gas industry has been fighting this so hard. This is good corporate regulation and if you care about the environment you should support it.