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everyone has that one thing that they don't want to give up to help reduce emissions. I'll admit for me it's fast cars. for a lot of people on HN, it seems to b
by leetcrew 7y ago
everyone has that one thing that they don't want to give up to help reduce emissions. I'll admit for me it's fast cars. for a lot of people on HN, it seems to be that they don't want to sacrifice travel or visiting that distant family member. I've seen people go so far as to argue that the holistic benefit of seeing other places is worth the cost in emissions.
I suspect if emissions were priced into air travel, we would start to see a lot of businesses realizing that video can replace a lot of in-person meetings. we might also see people start to place more value in living close to the people they care about.
- vidarh 7y agoReally we ought to price in the genuine cost of countering whatever emissions a product or service causes. My guess is that the effect that would have on demand for different product and services would surprise us, in that I don't think we understand very well where people would cut when externalities are priced in, partly because we're bad at estimating what value people put on different things, and partly because we're bad at assessing what impact different things has when e.g. factoring in supply lines.