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You're already paying for the environmental damage through disaster recovery, food costs, and health impacts. We're stuck paying those; willingness has nothing to do with it.
I'll chip in a buck. Everyone should watch that Geroge Carlin clip - funny and truthful and explains the absurdity of some of the sheep that virtue signal. Follow the money... it is always about money.
How much per month are you willing to pay to save the planet? NOT SOMEONE else. You. As we start to see higher heating bills, higher gasoline bills, etc., it s apparent to anyone with a brain that we are going to pay through the nose for these things.
So how much are you willing to pay for it YOURSELF?
Be more specific. If you’re talking about installing solar, it will pay for itself after like 10 years and then after that the home owner actually saves money.
If you’re talking about an EV, I paid $51,000 for a Tesla Model 3 and it was worth every penny on account of it being freaking amazing. It is way better than any other car I’ve driven so the fact that it is electric is just icing on the cake.
If you’re talking organic recycling our city gives us a separate garbage bin for that and collects it each week free of charge.
If you’re talking paying a surcharge for clean energy, I enrolled in a program with my electric company to only allocate wind/solar power to my home and pay the difference. After about a year of this the electric company informed me that they would no longer give me a surcharge since the price of solar and wind had come down to the point where it is actually cheaper than gas/coal.
If you’re talking limiting flights, we actually save money by doing this. We mainly take roadtrips in our Tesla which ends up being quite a bit cheaper than filling up an internal combustion car with gas, so once again we come out ahead.
Bottom line - “saving the planet” doesn’t actually cost very much at all.
Rumor has it that paper grocery bags and paper straws burn MORE carbon in the production process than their plastic counterparts. Also, soggy paper straws are gross.
Be more specific. If you’re talking about installing solar, it will pay for itself after like 10 years and then after that the home owner actually saves money.
If you’re talking about an EV, I paid $51,000 for a Tesla Model 3 and it was worth every penny on account of it being freaking amazing. It is way better than any other car I’ve driven so the fact that it is electric is just icing on the cake.
If you’re talking organic recycling our city gives us a separate garbage bin for that and collects it each week free of charge.
If you’re talking paying a surcharge for clean energy, I enrolled in a program with my electric company to only allocate wind/solar power to my home and pay the difference. After about a year of this the electric company informed me that they would no longer give me a surcharge since the price of solar and wind had come down to the point where it is actually cheaper than gas/coal.
If you’re talking limiting flights, we actually save money by doing this. We mainly take roadtrips in our Tesla which ends up being quite a bit cheaper than filling up an internal combustion car with gas, so once again we come out ahead.
Bottom line - “saving the planet” doesn’t actually cost very much at all.
Says the person that was able to afford a 51K Tesla and does organic recycling. I feel like it's an episode of Portlandia.
The 'earth' will be just fine. Its the bi-pedals walking around on it I am not so sure of. And recent events makes we wonder if 'saving' is the best option.
If the earth is in jeopardy then money wouldn't mean anything, so obviously all of it.
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