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I doubt you'll find many people on this thread concerned with the carbon footprint of flying friend. What do you mean by health costs? Mental stress, financial
by formerkrogemp 5y ago
I doubt you'll find many people on this thread concerned with the carbon footprint of flying friend. What do you mean by health costs? Mental stress, financial costs, opportunity costs, high blood pressure, potential respiratory illness?
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- Sporktacular 5y agoNot sure about emissions due to these events but I'm concerned about carbon footprint. If it's significant and these fairs have little purpose then they don't really justify their impact.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoI'm inclined to agree in that regard. If the economics work out, then it might be worth it. I do think we've run out of time in many ways however.
- Sporktacular 5y agoI've been concerned that's the case too. It's looking like we'll push it up by 3 degrees, which is bad but could be worse and it may be possible to bring that down with early sacrifices and new technology. There was a Kurzgesagt video recently about this which was quite good.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoI'm very glad that his channel covers it. I think that the IPCC reports should be required reading at this point as well. Or at least summaries.
- Sporktacular 5y agoFor sure, if it can help counter the 'it's too late anyway' narrative doing the rounds. 1st was 'there is no climate change', 2nd was 'okay there is but man isn't causing it/can't make a difference', 3rd was 'okay it's us but climate change isn't that bad anyway', and now this. The apathy of this creates the danger of it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- coryrc 5y agoHealth costs is probably the rapid spread of SARS-COV2