Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Is Keeping Your Old Car Better For The Environment?" video.

This video outlines why I don't like environmental issues. People concentrate 95% on carbon. Environmental degradation is SOOOOO much bigger than just carbon (which is only "bad" in the concentration, whereas the chemicals that go into the paint are bad period). I wish we'd stop putting a disproportionate amount of our environmental effort into carbon reduction and instead look at the bigger picture.
1
@logitech4873 I put carbon reduction far down the list. Deforestation and loss of habitat is far more important. (that's separate from carbon because more carbon is actually increasing overall tree numbers because they're growing further north). Water pollution is way further up the list for me, with microplastics being near the top of the water pollution list. There are many things that are right here, right now and easily dealt with. We can save whole species and ecosystems right now. I don't worry about 2 degrees over the next century nearly as much as I worry about border walls hurting animal migration. Let's worry about the ecosystem as it is right here and now. People would rather worry about and abstract paradigm decades in advance so they change their lightbulb and pat themselves on the back while eating foods made of palm kernel oil. Also, global warming is not all bad. It increases forest size, and many animals benefit from it. It's overall a bad thing, but I think not nearly as much as the 60% wildlife loss we face over the last half century, or the polluted rivers in SE Asia type deal. I care more about nuclear vs solar as far as the environmental impacts their mining and construction and disposal have vs carbon in and of itself. Putting gazillions towards "carbon capture" I think is a misallocation of resources.
1