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There's nothing wrong in picking the low-hanging fruit. Pick enough of these, and you start seeing a difference with minimal cost.
by rubinelli 7y ago
There's nothing wrong in picking the low-hanging fruit. Pick enough of these, and you start seeing a difference with minimal cost.
- weeksie 7y agoPrecisely why you go for the largest polluters, like agriculture and ground transport. Air travel is the opposite of low hanging fruit because it's difficult to make jets more fuel efficient—the air travel industry is already incentivized to do this to cut costs, so most of the low hanging fruit has been picked. You end up striving for incremental improvement on 2.5% of the problem.