Could these institutions help reverse climate change, shift off of non-renewable energy, help the environment,

Question

And lower there costs to citizens directly or through more efficient use of tax dollars if they had energy, lighting heating and cooling efficiency programs for there buildings and started installing solar panels and other green energy on them, and used more fuel efficient transportation as well as using bio-fuel in them where possible bouying the bio-fuel industry, and tried to lower there carbon emmisions as much as possible. The instatutions and transport I was thinking of are hospitals and ambulances, grade schools and school buses, high schools, colleges, police departments and cruisers, fire departments and fire trucks, departments of public works and snowplows and mowers, jails and prisons, post offices and postal trucks, town halls and other public buildings. There are a lot of these places and these veichles across america would this make a positive difference without harmful side effects?

Answer 1

I think so. The US government represents about 20% of the US economy and so should be able to contribute that much to the US portion of climate change. The US produces about 25% of the total output of greenhouse gases and so the US government is responsible for about 5% of the entire world production of greenhouse gases. This does not count state governments which I would guess are around another 10% of the US economy.

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