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| author | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-06-03 15:50:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-06-03 15:50:56 +0100 |
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chapter 1: carbon footprinting (minor edits)
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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index 6ce717d..8ece097 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -104,21 +104,21 @@ puts it: But in reality, consumers are often at the mercy of production decisions. To borrow Huber's illustration, the villain of the 'carbon footprint' narrative is -a rich consumer, say, someone who has the AC on all day in their spacious -suburban house and drives a over-sized diesel SUV to work. But imagine that -hypothetical rich consumer works in the manager's office of a fertiliser plant, -where one day he is presented with the option of sourcing low-carbon hydrogen -from electrolysis of water instead of extracting the hydrogen from coal. He -decides that the low-carbon alternative is too expensive and will make his -factory uncompetitive, so sticks with the coal. The carbon emissions of the +a rich consumer, say, someone who has the air conditioning on all day in their +spacious suburban house and drives a over-sized diesel SUV to work. But imagine +that hypothetical rich consumer works in the manager's office of a fertiliser +plant, where one day he is presented with the option of sourcing low-carbon +hydrogen from electrolysis of water instead of extracting the hydrogen from +coal. He decides that the low-carbon alternative is too expensive and will make +his factory uncompetitive, so sticks with the coal. The carbon emissions of the factory, which might be equivalent to 100,000 American consumers, are not -attributed to the manager of the factory, but to the 'carbon footprint' of the -thousands of consumers eating the food produced at the ultimate end of the -process, even though they are unlikely to have any power or even knowledge over -the manager's decisions. 'This person spends eight hours a day managing this -industrial capitalist enterprise and only perhaps forty minutes commuting to -work—so why do we only pay attention to the latter?' [@climate-change-class-war, -p. 16] +attributed to the manager of the factory, nor even the factory's owners, but to +the 'carbon footprint' of the thousands of consumers eating the food produced at +the ultimate end of the process, even though they are unlikely to have any power +or even knowledge over the manager's decisions. 'This person spends eight hours +a day managing this industrial capitalist enterprise and only perhaps forty +minutes commuting to work—so why do we only pay attention to the latter?' +[@climate-change-class-war, p. 16] Because they have mis-diagnosed the root causes of the problem, they too often go on to propose incredible solutions. The worst is simply to cut consumption. |
