Gas stove is always polluting, even when it’s turned off

https://www.vox.com/2022/1/27/22902490/gas-stoves-methane-climate-pollution-health-off

by ystad • 4 years ago

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Comevius2• 4 years ago

In an ideal world we would be able to quickly phase out gas stoves, but we live in a world where a company can pour a few million dollars into social media, create a new conspiracy theory about induction stoves and an equivalence between gas stoves, traditional values and not being a namby-pamby sheep.

In an ideal world the government would also ensure that everyone can afford a new induction stove, even if the tax payers have to chip in, because this is literally the best use of money. But again, a few million dollars, conspiracies, this is communism and so on.

The ideal world would still let us screw each other over, but it would let us do that for millions of years instead of decades. Sustainability is everything, the rest can be fixed later.

captainredbeard• 4 years ago

In an ideal world we would be able to quickly phase out gas stoves

What if I like my gas stove?

asteroidp• 4 years ago

Obviously that makes you a shill rolling in sweet sweet conspiracy money

Comevius2• 4 years ago

That's not a problem, just pay for the pollution either by renting from the carbon budget the planet can naturally handle or by renting from the decarbonization budget. Better yet your gas company should take care of it and just put it on the bill.

That would be the obvious market solution on a spaceship, but not on planet, even though a planet is a spaceship. This also means that there is barely any decarbonization innovation, because you can't do much from donations.

We need a market solution for pricing the externalities, no matter how painful it is.

bradknowles• 4 years ago

What if my gas stove continues to work, even when the power goes out?

Gas stove is always polluting, even when it’s turned off

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