Unpopular opinion: people in the tech industry fly too much.
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“Technologies have always been about emphasizing the mobility of the elite. It prioritizes their need to connect and their ways of making an income.” –
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For most of us, it’s normal to fly multiple times per year for conferences, meetings, and retreats. And air pollution is getting worse; particularly with regards to global warming.https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/1/11/18177118/airlines-climate-change-emissions-travel …
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This is one of those hard realities I don’t want to think about. I like flying to conferences and events. The face-to-face connections I’ve made there have been invaluable. But, if we’re serious about tackling climate change we need to look at everything.
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You might want to check out some of
@Noahpinion 's threads on this. Brief summary: no matter what we do in the developed world, ~4 billion+ people going through fossil fuel driven growth in China, India, and African nations will eviscerate any gains from lifestyle changes we make2 odpowiedzi 1 podany dalej 1 polubiony
I don’t like that form of defeatism: “well, if the US and Chinese governments won’t do anything we’re fucked anyway!” We need action: government policy, clean tech, foreign policy, and to change the way we live and conduct business.
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