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While I don't disagree that spectating races is boring, the amount of CO2 those put out pale in comparison to commutator traffic or the container ships running bunker fuel. We could have EV races and if each manufacturer entered their base models, could help with adoption. We could also make the ICE races run biogas(methane from antibiotic digesters) or biodiesel(tractor pulls could easily adopt that with only a small lowering of performance that all the tractors would share).
All consumption is.
Container ships are some of the most efficient things on the planet. Per person f1 has insane output
But are all the things they transport necessary? Is it necessary for them to burn bunker fuel? Fuel so dirty, they aren't allowed to burn it near the ports and have to switch to diesel. There's some effort to design sail container ships, but how much plastic shit or Fast Fashion shit do we need?
Oh certainly not. But they're certainly still much more worth it overall than an f1 race. I mean, I do have more extremist environment takes. I think fast fashion should be banned and most plastics too just outright