OK, I have a degree in physics. The earth's rotation is slowing down at a very small rate. This is due to the friction of tidal forces due to the moon and to a lesser extent the sun. I forget the amount of time it will take to stop the rotation completely, but it is a long, long time. You will not need to adjust any clocks or watches in your lifetime and those same clocks and watches will be just as accurate if your grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren's, grandchildren use them. It is just that little. You can stop worrying about it.
Yes there are better ways to heat and cool our houses, to transport us, to power our factories, etc. And they will come along in their own time. The automobile did not come about from massive government regulations or subsidies. New things need to come about when they are truly economic, not when they need regulations to force us to buy them or subsidies to make them affordable. Any extra money spent on forcing them on the public IS A TOTAL WASTE OF RESOURCES. Money is exactly equal to resources. And we should not be wasting our money/resources trying to force new technologies on the public before they are truly economic. Before they really COST LESS when everything is taken into account. Anything else is a waste and just slows the process down.
Let it happen on it's own. Let market forces govern it, not bureaucrats. Not protesters who don't know squat about it. Things get better, get more efficient, if they are just left on their own.
You want solar power for your house? Check out it's total cost against the total cost of conventional power in your region. If it will cost more then it IS LESS EFFICIENT. Dollars tell the whole story.
Money = resources. That is an exact equation. If you don't believe that, just examine where every penny that you ever had came from. You were probably paid for doing a job. The company used natural resources, perhaps already altered by others, to make a product that was made with the labor of yourself and others. That labor also represents resources that were expended: food, clothing, the services of others like teachers, etc., things like the car you take to work, or the tools that you use. All of these things come from natural resources ever since the first cave man made the first knife and traded with his neighbor. Money = resources. That is as mathematically and scientifically true as the laws of physics, and the basic theorems of math.
Maybe a scientist will chime in how the earth keeps spinning at a set speed.
sure we could reduce the emissions by using solar and wind power, stop putting heat in the atmosphere as well, think of all the processes we use air for cooling.
No heaters in the house, no air-conditioning.
But there are some you cannot avoid like how to make steel without emissions? making it in one country other than yourself just palms the problem to someone else who doesn't care as much.
when you do a list it will be long...how do we keep those processes for things we need to keep the current standard of living?
Having a protest march in the city when you arrived there in a bus or train made from steel or heaven forbid a car is plain silly.
phone a friend to come along- phone being mined materials and processed into a phone, transported to your shop etc
finite resources such as coal should be replaced that's a given and processes done with it should be done in the country of origin, we ship lots of iron ore, coal, trace elements across the world to get processed elsewhere then ship the stuff back.
Why not reduce shipping emissions?
Anyhow anyone planning on getting solar power for the home ? if you get reasonable sunlight with the costs coming down maybe that's a small start. As long as the input cost emissions to make solar power parts is not fudged away and is accounted for. able to be recycled as well.
Emissions to make, transport, install, maintenance and emissions saved over the lifetime of the product need to be considered.
Lots of opaque things to consider.