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>I've done radical changes to my life at least last few years to reduce my pollution/co2 footprint and if more people think like this it _will_ help. Ah yes, t

>I've done radical changes to my life at least last few years to reduce my pollution/co2 footprint and if more people think like this it _will_ help. Ah yes, the 1%, living in their mansions and driving Teslas to their summer homes, telling the rest of the world that they need to "make radical changes". Good luck with that.

tyfon 7y ago
I'm far from being in the 1%, however the things I've done personally so far is * Use public transportation to work (bus/train) * Drastically reduced meat consumption from every day to once a week. I still eat fish about twice a week. * Converted part of my garden (my house is 150 square meters so I wouldn't exactly call it a mansion) to a vegetable garden. * Make sure the food I do buy is produced locally, it is clearly marked in the stores. I buy honey and eggs from the farm right next door. * When I do go to the store I walk instead of driving. * I bought but have not yet received an electric car. Yes it's a tesla but I have a normal job and with the way taxes are structured here it's a very common car on the road along with other electrics like leafs, e-trons, kias, e golfs etc. * Not travelling too far for vacations, avoiding air travel as much as possible. Recently I've mostly use air due to work, but there too I often drive/take the train 8-10 hours instead of taking the plane. There is plenty more to do, but for me personally I can't just sit idle and you have to start somewhere. And last I did not tell anyone to radically change their lives, I said I did so myself. But the more people that do it the better.
- perfunctory 7y ago
  > Recently I've mostly use air due to work I am wondering if you see any possibility to avoid work related air travel as well? I understand that certain jobs require flying but I also see, at least at my own company, that a lot of those flights are not really necessary and could easily be avoided. Would you mind to elaborate?
  - tyfon 7y ago
    There are some ways to reduce air travel imho (and probably other ways to do so). * Video conferencing * Car/train/bus transportation if the hours used is acceptable. A good way to do this is a "night train" with a sleeping compartment. * The big one: electric planes. However it is a though one. Sometimes you just have to travel far to meet someone face to face and unfortunately the only way to achieve this in a reasonable way today is by hydrocarbon burning air travel.
- navigatesol 7y ago
  >But the more people that do it the better. Again, most people on the planet are just scraping by. They don't have time to garden. They can't afford to shop at farmer's markets. They can't afford most cars, let alone electric vehicles. I assume your intentions are good, but climate change won't be remotely close to solved by such measures, and when people say, "I bought a Tesla so I could drive it to my summer home and do my part for the planet!" it probably causes more resentment from the 99% than anything else.

tyfon 7y ago

I'm far from being in the 1%, however the things I've done personally so far is * Use public transportation to work (bus/train) * Drastically reduced meat consumption from every day to once a week. I still eat fish about twice a week. * Converted part of my garden (my house is 150 square meters so I wouldn't exactly call it a mansion) to a vegetable garden. * Make sure the food I do buy is produced locally, it is clearly marked in the stores. I buy honey and eggs from the farm right next door. * When I do go to the store I walk instead of driving. * I bought but have not yet received an electric car. Yes it's a tesla but I have a normal job and with the way taxes are structured here it's a very common car on the road along with other electrics like leafs, e-trons, kias, e golfs etc. * Not travelling too far for vacations, avoiding air travel as much as possible. Recently I've mostly use air due to work, but there too I often drive/take the train 8-10 hours instead of taking the plane. There is plenty more to do, but for me personally I can't just sit idle and you have to start somewhere. And last I did not tell anyone to radically change their lives, I said I did so myself. But the more people that do it the better.

perfunctory 7y ago
> Recently I've mostly use air due to work I am wondering if you see any possibility to avoid work related air travel as well? I understand that certain jobs require flying but I also see, at least at my own company, that a lot of those flights are not really necessary and could easily be avoided. Would you mind to elaborate?
- tyfon 7y ago
  There are some ways to reduce air travel imho (and probably other ways to do so). * Video conferencing * Car/train/bus transportation if the hours used is acceptable. A good way to do this is a "night train" with a sleeping compartment. * The big one: electric planes. However it is a though one. Sometimes you just have to travel far to meet someone face to face and unfortunately the only way to achieve this in a reasonable way today is by hydrocarbon burning air travel.
navigatesol 7y ago
>But the more people that do it the better. Again, most people on the planet are just scraping by. They don't have time to garden. They can't afford to shop at farmer's markets. They can't afford most cars, let alone electric vehicles. I assume your intentions are good, but climate change won't be remotely close to solved by such measures, and when people say, "I bought a Tesla so I could drive it to my summer home and do my part for the planet!" it probably causes more resentment from the 99% than anything else.