A new report finds 24 states have yet to establish an “energy efficiency resource standard," which has been shown to curb demand, lower costs and reduce emissions.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Lowering demand while increasing population means a lowering standard of living. That’s how wars start, and we end up with extremist idiots in charge. If you want lower demand, lower, or stop growing the population. And also realize that most attempts to lower population growth will be massively unpopular. But again, the alternative is war and extremism.

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      17 hours ago

      Well the problem there is the increasing population which should not be happening as long as we are using more than a years worth of planetary resources each year.

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        15 hours ago

        Agreed, but try telling people not to breed or worse do something to stop them. That’s going to end almost as badly as over breeding in the first place. The difference being it would happen right then, rather than some inevitable future date.

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          15 hours ago

          I don’t believe underbreeding will end very badly. It means we have to handle things differently and getting back to growth is not incredibly tough. When it comes down to it we need to lower the wealth gap which will largely take care of the rest.

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            12 hours ago

            It’s not that population decline has to end badly, it’s that causing it will end badly. It’s eugenics and religious and class wars all rolled into a ball of angry fun.

            Knowing the solution to the problem isn’t the problem, it’s that billions of people don’t like the solution.