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==As people choose to work from home, and as more people go vegan, these trends may continue. And?== Neither of these things are guaranteed to continue after C
by take_a_breath 6y ago
==As people choose to work from home, and as more people go vegan, these trends may continue. And?==
Neither of these things are guaranteed to continue after COVID passes. More Westerners going vegan doesn’t automatically lower emissions if people in developing countries continue to grow their meat intake.
On the flip side, if people move out of urban cores and increase online shopping, those might have a negative impact on emissions.
Edit: Seems like people are misinterpreting the "negative impact on emissions". By that phrase, I meant that more personalized delivery and suburban living may very well lead to an increase in emissions. Apologies for the confusion.
- zeroonetwothree 6y agoOnline shopping is way more efficient than in person shopping. Not only is the net transit time shorter, but stores are very costly in terms of energy use and logistics.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoCitations please. Delivery services driving items around, with laws even mandating full money-back without questions asked in eg Germany (inviting people to order clothes in a couple of candidate sizes and lots of retoure) are heavy on emissions as well.
- EGreg 6y agoPeople moving out of urban cores increases emissions, because they now have to build and heat/cool more homes, and most importantly — commute to work. Suburbia is probably one of the biggest contributors to fossil fuel usage.
- claydavisss 6y agoYet the ruling class continues to willfully induce a migration out of dense urban cores by permitting and accelerating their decay. Reduction in law enforcement is just one more move in that direction, following a decades-long regime of permissive attitudes towards homelessness. They want us out of cities, so we're out.
- take_a_breath 6y agoWe agree, it was a poorly written phrase. Please see the edit.
- Larrikin 6y agoHow does needing a car to go everywhere in a rural or suburban environment decrease emissions?
- take_a_breath 6y agoWe agree, it was poorly written. Please see the edit.
- wizzwizz4 6y ago> More Westerners going vegan doesn’t automatically lower emissions if people in developing countries continue to grow their meat intake. But it's surely an improvement over Westerners not going vegan, and people in developing countries continuing to grow their meat intake.