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My idea is to put up as many renewable energy gatherers devices as safely possible. Sure it'll look bad for a while, bit once we have unlimited amount of energy we will come back with better looking, more efficient devices. Line every sunny sidewalk with solar panels and open fields with wind turbines. Sorry about your view for right now. But it'll look better in 50 years, especially if we can start to start to slow down climate change
@bob_wiley @UrPartnerInCrime this is all the news talks about. It was British Petroleum that originally coined the phrase 'carbon footprint' so people could calculate their individual climate impact. News cycles have eaten it up for decades since:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/07/21/carbon-footprint-big-oil