If you live in the UK, your dishwasher and fridge’s carbon footprint has shrunk by a lot, largely because the government and companies have spent billions of pounds to install wind and solar power. Over the past 35 years, that switch has helped cut emissions from electricity generation by 80%.
Heck yes! It has nothing to do with investing in the infrastructure people depend on! Just give them no better options and they’ll choose the more expensive route!
Or… we could make electricity cheap, tax carbon dependent heating systems and use those funds to subsidize sustainable options? Whenever people get to a new place, are out to save a buck, or their decade old unit breaks… the green options will look a whole lot nicer.
So yes, blame those with few reasonable options for having few reasonable options
Ah, yes, doing the same thing while waiting for “better options” as a moral position. That’s called moral opportunism! Congrats, capitalism’s ideal man: “rational self-interest man”.