<story><title>The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change</title><url>http://cognitivemedium.com/dac-notes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>Not a word about the most effective, cheapest strategy: reduce emissions?&lt;p&gt;Most Americans could reduce their emissions by 75% while &lt;i&gt;improving&lt;/i&gt; their standard of living by buying less junk, wearing a sweater in the winter, eating more healthy, and other low hanging fruit that will make them more active, healthy, connected to their communities, etc.&lt;p&gt;Reduce consumption by half. There, I just saved us $300 million.&lt;p&gt;How is reduction not our top priority and activity??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>Personal choice is a very small aspect here. Americans can not choose to have lower carbon cement, steel, manufacturing, shipping, airliners, etc. Yes, we can do a lot by not flying ourselves, buying less items, eating less meat, but at the end of the day: MOST of our solutions are going to come from corporations and government.</text></comment>
<story><title>The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change</title><url>http://cognitivemedium.com/dac-notes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>Not a word about the most effective, cheapest strategy: reduce emissions?&lt;p&gt;Most Americans could reduce their emissions by 75% while &lt;i&gt;improving&lt;/i&gt; their standard of living by buying less junk, wearing a sweater in the winter, eating more healthy, and other low hanging fruit that will make them more active, healthy, connected to their communities, etc.&lt;p&gt;Reduce consumption by half. There, I just saved us $300 million.&lt;p&gt;How is reduction not our top priority and activity??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehjoker</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t forget, the military is the biggest emitter on the planet. We should rapidly downsize all militaries immediately.</text></comment>