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Wondering what you can do? Especially for liberals? My idea of where to start: shame your company into phasing out business trips. I know we all like to travel
by mehrdadn 8y ago
Wondering what you can do? Especially for liberals? My idea of where to start: shame your company into phasing out business trips. I know we all like to travel but it needs to stop being seen as a work perk and start being seen as a liability. We put internet cables across the oceans and continents for a reason -- so we travel less, not more. Find a way to reward those who refuse to go -- maybe have a fun local hangout or whatever. Get your supervisor chain to stop making someone fly every month/week/whatever. Because every cross-continental/trans-atlantic flight (very roughly) emits around 20% [1] and 100% [2] of your entire year's worth of driving.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollution-global-warming.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollutio...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/sep/09/carbon-emissions-planes-shipping https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/sep/09/car...