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Ok, all personal efforts are good to take, but we will never emphasize enough that the energy transition is not and cannot work solely at individual or households level.
In our current world, we use oil to make fertilizer to grow food, we use extensive gas-powered machinery for everything in the fields and for cattles. Then we need gas-powered trucks to transport food to the supermarkets, themselves dependent on transportation of an army of low wages jobs: the ones who will struggle more with rising costs of transportations.
In winter, a lot of food is growed in greenhouses heated by burning gas.
Almost all of complex devices around us are heavily dependent on globlalization, so cheap transportation of goods thanks to oil.
Even after the war, damages on natural gas infra already made will have repercussions for years.
And even beyond that, we know that the conventional oil reserve worldwide is depleting, and non-conventional will get more and more expensive as the most accessible deposit will also deplete.
We urgently need ambitious public policies.
I agree, but that starts with the individual. If no one gives a shit, nothing changes. Give a shit, speak up, and others will feel more comfortable taking part alongside you.