denim_chicken

No, I'm suggesting that significantly reducing the world's energy consumption is intractable: at an individual level, our choices don't matter, because the slack created by a single person's efforts will eventually be picked up by someone else. At a national level, the slack created by one nation's efforts will eventually get picked up by another country. At the global level, well, good luck getting the entire world to agree to severe GHG emission reductions. We can't even get the highly developed nations to agree to that, let alone the developing nations. In short, I'm convinced that we're screwed.

How much money do you spend per year? The money you spend eventually goes into the hands of someone whose lifestyle is much less green than yours, and will get spent accordingly.

Yeah, we're screwed. No technofix is going to save us this time.

Go work as a package handler at UPS/Fedex/etc for a few weeks and then you'll understand.

They track us and then sell our data.

Being a carpenter also sucks

Some people just have too much money.

The current level of atmospheric CO2 is not unprecedented, but the current rate of change of atmospheric CO2 is. Couple that with massive ecological decimation and biodiversity due to human habitation and it is clear that our current predicament is geologically unprecedented.

It's only a matter of time before llvm/clang overshadows gcc in every aspect, if it hasn't already. clang probably has 10x more full-time developers than gcc does.