Well, apart from these actions, there is a subtle notion that most miss - One has to implement a cultural revolution, backed by a political revamp.
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We all know in general that cars, trucks, coal and power plants, household heating and cooling, and manufacturing industries spew a majority of the greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere and the oceans. But did you know that U.S. household use of fossil fuels (housing, transportation, and food) accounts for 67% of total energy consumption and 67% of GHG's emitted?
Heating, lighting, and cooling our poorly insulated and designed 113 million homes and apartments and running our electrical and gas appliances consumes 26.6% of total U.S. fossil fuels.
Cruising in our gas guzzling (averaging 22 miles per gallon) and underutilized cars (average 1.4 passengers per journey) burns up another 23.4% of energy.
Eating highly processed and packaged foods and animal products, produced on chemical and energy-intensive factory-style farms, transported over long distances, and throwing our waste foods into the garbage (rather than composting them) eats up another 17.3% of the nation's energy.
The average U.S. citizen generates 19.6 tons of climate destabilizing greenhouse gases every year, more than twice as much as the European Union and Japan (9.3 tons per capita), and 7.3 times as much as the developing world (2.7 tons per capita).
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Below is the article that referenced the above fact sheet, and provides a very descriptive study on what was tried @Copenhagen, and what else is causing the impact, through various sectors.
I do not expect anyone to sit through reading this snippet in one shot and digest everything...but I sincerely think one should make a conscious effort to get the gist of it.
Read on @ http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51558
