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Problem is that no matter how much good you want to do, you're limited by the amount of emissions you are having right now. No chance to avoid 5t of carbon when
by _Microft 6y ago
Problem is that no matter how much good you want to do, you're limited by the amount of emissions you are having right now. No chance to avoid 5t of carbon when your yearly footprint is at 4t already.
It's a lot easier to emit an additional 5t of carbon by jetting to the other side of the planet and back again, though.
Now think about someone who is taking such trips bi-weekly (as I know someone) and their job isn't even making them at least net-positive for the world either.
- mcntsh 6y agoThe average carbon footprint of someone in the US is 16 tons, in Germany it's 9,5 tons.
- _Microft 6y agoIt looks like using numbers obscured the argument that I wanted to make. The problem I wanted to point out is that personally achievable reductions are limited while the potential harm that an individual could do by excessive consumption or travel does not have a hard cap.
- esarbe 6y agoThat's a good point to make.
- mcntsh 6y agoThe people flying in those planes can make personally achievable reductions themselves. Everyone has to make the effort together.
- _Microft 6y agoI'd also wish that everyone were more environmentally conscious but I think we need solutions that are robust enough that they will even work despite people's bad attitudes and not just when people have good attitudes.
- mcntsh 6y agoSure, I just think it's funny how people blame the "evil corporations" for the problems while humans are simultaneously unwilling to solve the problems themselves.