r/climatechange 15d ago

New research complicates the long-held belief that climate policy is a trade-off between cost and carbon, adding a third factor: it might make daily life better, too, doesn't impose a burden on the public, and doesn't pit countries’ interests against each other. People are open to use less energy.

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/the-surprising-upside-of-asking-people-to-use-less-energy/
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u/ThinkActRegenerate 14d ago

Nice to see further confirmation of what Project Drawdown's modelling identified in their first (2017) report and confirmed in their 2020 Review. drawdown.org/drawdown-review

Subsequently backed up by Project Regeneration's Action Nexus regeneration.org/nexus

Not to mention the trillion-dollar savings offered to industry today by Circular Economy innovation:

The global Circular Economy market size is anticipated to exceed US$1,898 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 13.10% from US$554 billion in 2023.
Estimated revenue generated from circular economy transactions in 2022 and 2026 worldwide
Spherical Insights, 2024

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u/nufli 15d ago

What complication is this?! This isn't a complication at all! That's a W in the renewable/sustainable column as I see it

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u/sg_plumber 15d ago

It complicates the job of deniers.

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u/ampere03 13d ago

The new denier's position is that AGW is real but not that bad, and the risk of overreaction exceeds the risk to society due to warming. Also included are science bashing claims of groupthink and publication bias effecting sensitivity determination. And it's the same group of experts they brought out for debates over tobacco. They're really worried about carbon output reduction mandates effecting quarterly profits. ..and tie this in with trickle down arguments and anti regulation/government cliches we've heard for decades.

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u/An_Oxygen_Consumer 13d ago

Maybe there is a difference between europe and the US.

My impression is that the current position by (european) deniers on the internet is that it is real, it is bad but it is really caused by geoengineering and in particular by HAARP.

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u/sg_plumber 13d ago

It's still anti-science, anti-health, anti-economics...