Emissions
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It means reduce your carbon dioxide
emissions
with the full range of choices that you make, and then purchase or acquire offsets for the remainder that you have not completely reduced.
You can very precisely calculate what your CO2
emissions
are, and then you will be given options to reduce.
Once it's a closed system, you will have legal liability if you do not urge your CEO to get the maximum income from reducing and trading the carbon
emissions
that can be avoided.
So rather than asking, as precaution would demand, what can we do as quickly as possible to avoid potential catastrophe, we ask bizarre questions like this: "What is the latest possible moment we can wait before we begin seriously lowering
emissions?
So, actually, one of the most exciting things my group is doing right now is trying to use the radio
emissions
from the sun as a type of radar signal.
Frankly, four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no
emissions
is still a traffic jam.
Because, if you can envision, as I do, a future of zero
emissions
and freedom to move around the country and around the world like we take for granted today, that's worth the hard work today to preserve that for tomorrow.
Watson was in fact listening to very low-frequency radio
emissions
caused by nature.
We're understanding, in fact, that those of us who live in the developed world need to be really pushing towards eliminating our
emissions.
And this is a huge, huge energy savings, because what comes out of our tailpipe is really just the beginning of the story with climate
emissions
from cars.
When you can get rid of all of those because somebody doesn't use any of them really, you find that you can actually cut transportation
emissions
as much as 90 percent.
But if we think differently, I think that, in fact, we can have cities that are not only zero emissions, but have unlimited possibilities as well.
And the result of that is, we're going to generate 83,000 new jobs, four billion dollars a year in annual income, and reduce the CO2
emissions
by 174 million tons a year.
California emits only seven percent of U.S. CO2
emissions.
It's only a percent and a half of the country's CO2
emissions.
That's 10 percent of the CO2
emissions
across their entire country.
To size the problem, China's CO2
emissions
today are 3.3 gigatons; the U.S. is 5.8.
This is not illegal stuff, this is basically business as usual, which causes climate-changing emissions, which have an economic cost.
It's about energy
emissions.
But what we're missing is also some other
emissions
like black carbon, that is soot.
Thankfully, the flux, in other words, the flow of
emissions
from the ocean to the atmosphere and vice versa, is more or less balanced.
In fact, what's being absorbed is something like 25 percent of our emissions, which then leads to acidification or lower alkalinity in oceans.
Green carbon, which is the deforestation and agricultural emissions, and blue carbon together comprise 25 percent of our
emissions.
The oil produced from either method produces more greenhouse gas
emissions
than any other oil.
Now we're the country that has full-time lobbyists in the European Union and Washington DC, threatening trade wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the import of high-carbon fuels, of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this, at international conferences, whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun, international conferences on climate change, we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day, as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
Last year on climate, for example, we had the highest global
emissions
ever.
Scientists like James Hansen tell us we may need to eliminate net CO2
emissions
from the economy in just a few decades.
To my surprise, eliminating net CO2
emissions
from the economy in just 20 years is actually pretty easy and pretty cheap, not very cheap, but certainly less than the cost of a collapsing civilization.
So we have this incredible presence today of agriculture dominating our planet, whether it's 40 percent of our land surface, 70 percent of the water we use, 30 percent of our greenhouse gas
emissions.
It generates 30% of greenhouse gas
emissions.
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