>I disagree quite strongly with what I take to be both of your main points. I am genuinely under the impression wealthy humans are responsible for a disproporti

>I disagree quite strongly with what I take to be both of your main points. I am genuinely under the impression wealthy humans are responsible for a disproportionate amount of environmental destruction. We consume more of everything that contributes to deforestation, pollution, and plastic waste. Just look to the company hosting this site... I've flown once since Y Combinator came into existence, Y Combinator requires at least 1 founder of every team that gets an in-person interview to fly to the Bay Area. CO2 emissions from aviation fuel are 3.15 grams per gram of fuel. >a round-trip flight from New York to San Francisco emits about 0.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollution-global-warming.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollutio... YC has funded 1500 something companies funded, let's assume they've interviewed twice that many in person. So let's say 0.7 metric tons x 3000 companies x 1.5 cofounders, that's 3150 metric tons for in-person interviews. Now, let's look at data transfer for skype. Saving and storing 100 gigabytes of data in the cloud per year would result in a carbon footprint of about 0.2 tons of >Saving and storing 100 gigabytes of data in the cloud per year would result in a carbon footprint of about 0.2 tons of CO2, based on the usual U.S. electric mix https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/carbon-and-the-cloud-d6f481b79dfe https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/carbon-and-the-cloud-d6... Skype, with HD, could use >Recommended Video Call HD 10.98 MB/min https://www.orduh.com/data-usage-on-skype-video-call/ https://www.orduh.com/data-usage-on-skype-video-call/ Assume 15 minute average interview. 165 megabytes x 3000 companies = about a ton of carbon IF the data is stored for a year so in reality a fraction of a ton. So an investment company, looking to invest in businesses that ideally will hit a billion plus valuations, could have easily used 3150x more carbon because they can afford to reimburse flights and would prefer to do interviews in person where video chat would have not only cost orders of magnitude less but generated thousands of times less carbon. Now consider the more money you have, the more likely you are to travel regularly for recreation and here is a clear case where more $$$ can easily result in a considerably larger carbon footprint.