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This is the dumbest thing I've read today. It's noble, but just completely and utterly unachievable. Most people would choose the global warming over not seeing

• angelzen 5y ago
  It is indeed completely and utterly unachievable. 'what can I do'? The easy answer is to point to some of the myriad things one can do. Aviation has perhaps the biggest bang for the buck, easy to unilaterally give up and with quantifiable significant impacts. And yet, utterly insufficient by itself. The hard answer is that we need to downsize our expectations by an order of magnitude.
• bertil 5y ago
  I believe that a lot of people did opt for a video-conference family events in the last 18 months. That was to prevent millions from dying. I don’t know how many people you or everyone expect will die from global warming, but I believe that the number is some orders of magnitude around millions; I also believe that the estimated impact in people’s mind will consistently go up, and that more people will opt to make remote family function more common — of use trains, electric cars and boats to travel. I anyone had told me, two years ago, that my elderly and technophobe mother would have an informed discussion about which VC technology to use for us to attend my brother’s wedding, I’d be dismissive (maybe not insulting) too: she barely understood that FaceTime and Facebook are not the same thing. But after her mother’s funeral on Zoom, and her nephew’s wedding on Hopin and her being asked to help film christening because she became her parish tech expert… Things have changed.