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People have been living in standalone houses longer than I've been alive. People have been flying for vacation longer than I've been alive. Maybe we should work
by mikestew 6y ago
People have been living in standalone houses longer than I've been alive. People have been flying for vacation longer than I've been alive. Maybe we should work on those things, but they are not new, and (right or wrong) could even be argued to have been a measure of living standards for quite a long time.
What hasn't been around longer than I've been alive is a new way to make coffee have far more environmental impact than it used to. We're supposed to be making things better, not worse. So, yeah, I can be high and mighty about your new way to needlessly generate trash while still living in a standalone house, and not a bit of cognitive dissonance in sight.
- atombender 6y agoThose things aren't new, but the scale of it is new. In particular, passenger air travel has absolutely exploded the last couple of decades. According to this [1] chart, the number of passengers have doubled in 2006. It's up by a factor 13 since 1970. Our systemic environmental problems don't mostly come from new concepts, but from population growth and globalization. [1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR