Unpopular opinion: people in the tech industry fly too much.
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For those wanting policy: we could implement what the UK is considering. “Each citizen would be allowed one tax-free flight per year but would pay progressively higher taxes on each additional flight taken.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/1-of-english-residents-take-one-fifth-of-overseas-flights-survey-shows …
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In the future, the public will demand that corporations and governments are responsible for their externalities. The airline industry should have to pay to clean the air it pollutes. Manufacturers should be responsible for the entire lifecycle of their products.
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Too many companies make their profits by outsourcing the true cost of their products to the public. This is also true in tech, and with startups. (And yes, also true for my company!)
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Here’s a cool idea for reducing air travel to tech conferences:
@MicroConf recently announced a series of smaller, local events that will bring their big conference experience to cities across the USA. This also enables folks to attend who wouldn’t normally be able to afford itPokaż ten wątek -
As Saul Griffith (founder of
@otherlab) outlines here, reducing the world's carbon footprint is going to require action by governments, corporations, AND individuals: http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/jan/16/climate-change-recalculated/ …pic.twitter.com/9fW6K8jMex
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