And I'd expect their emissions to be way lower than trucks and heavy duty vehicles.
We could drill down the other categories (electricity, commercial and residential -- btw it's so absurd to merge these two in one block), what we individually consume/burn as private citizen is usually the tip of the iceberg.
Consuming less or different can have an impact, but only if the industries behind also follow through (image for instance you stop eating meat to reduce the agricultural impact, only for the soybean producer to go on a production rampage and destroy soils and areas in ways we wouldn't have predicted). Or from another perspective, we could have significant impact from the producers improving their practices, with little to no consumer behavior change.
Basically nothing will happen without the production side making a significant effort. If what we're looking for is "doing something", pushing harder on producers should be the way to go.
Agriculture and Industry represent 33%, more than the 29% of the total for transportation.
Even drilling down transportation, personal vehicles are a small portion (about a fifth ?) of the total compared to trucking and other business vehicles https://depts.washington.edu/trac/bulkdisk/pdf/VVD_CLASS.pdf
And I'd expect their emissions to be way lower than trucks and heavy duty vehicles.
We could drill down the other categories (electricity, commercial and residential -- btw it's so absurd to merge these two in one block), what we individually consume/burn as private citizen is usually the tip of the iceberg.
Consuming less or different can have an impact, but only if the industries behind also follow through (image for instance you stop eating meat to reduce the agricultural impact, only for the soybean producer to go on a production rampage and destroy soils and areas in ways we wouldn't have predicted). Or from another perspective, we could have significant impact from the producers improving their practices, with little to no consumer behavior change.
Basically nothing will happen without the production side making a significant effort. If what we're looking for is "doing something", pushing harder on producers should be the way to go.