If not for capitalist modes of production, would your home still be designed in a way so ill-fitting to the environment that you need a thermostat right now?
This is totally true because I use about 15x more kWh of electricity at work than at home. Why? We have an electric boiler supplying bathroom hot water, we still use incandescent lights, we have huge electric ovens for soldering, etc. With green Facilities leadership we could cut our factory emissions by a lot, and there's only so much supply chain transparency that can be supplied to consumers before they just don't really know which product is greener (and some of our customers are military and they don't give a fuck about supply chain carbon emissions). If factory leaders here were B-corp environmentalists we'd be hiking up prices on military grade product and spending that profit on green infrastructure upgrades at our factory.
Tbf on the electric boiler, it’s probably better to have that than a gas boiler, in terms of CO2 emissions. It depends on how clean the local grid is. The incandescents make no sense though - LEDs are so much better. Even if you don’t care about using less energy for environmental reasons, upgrading the lights would save enough money in energy costs to pay back pretty quickly
we still use incandescent lights
Where do you even buy those?
They're still on every shelves in every hardware store in the US. Freeeeeedumb.
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