[HN Gopher] How Oslo Learned to Fight Climate Change
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How Oslo Learned to Fight Climate Change
Author : haakonhr
Score : 16 points
Date : 2022-05-07 14:01 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| notorandit wrote:
| Oslo (that is Norway) cannot fight climate change. Not on its
| own.
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| The whole world as one maybe can.
| beagle3 wrote:
| To elaborate, Norway population is ~5M, which is ~0.05% of the
| the world population. Even if they were the worst polluters
| ever, at 20x average (they are not!) and even if they went back
| to living in caves and became vegetarian tomorrow -- the effect
| size would be 1% of the total world action.
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| And Oslo is just 12% of Norwegian population, so ...
| nymalt wrote:
| What they didn't tell you in the article is that a lot of
| householdings in Oslo use firewood to keep their houses warm
| during the cold season.
|
| People unloading firewood from their Tesla X/Audi e-tron is a
| usual sight in Oslo.
| timidiceball wrote:
| I would just like to say how much I appreciate the whole No-ICE-
| Construction-Vehicles thing as an Oslo parent who has to squeeze
| by a long-term waterworks project site every morning and
| afternoon for daycare dropoff. There's only a narrow pedestrian
| passage to get around the dig site.
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| The backhoes, augers -- even the dumptrucks -- are all full
| electric (!). It's a small, older street with narrow pedestrian
| detours on either side, but the noise levels are so low I can
| continue speaking at normal volume to my kids the whole way.
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