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I'm confused by this take. If someone said they take ICE public buses to commute daily, my guess is the sentiment would be that is environmentally-conscious co
by liquidise 4y ago
I'm confused by this take.
If someone said they take ICE public buses to commute daily, my guess is the sentiment would be that is environmentally-conscious commuting.
Is this meaningfully different from boarding a plane? I can see a luxury vs necessity angle, but is that it? Over long distances planes are more efficient. And like buses, the idea that a single person's behavior will impact departure schedules feels wrong.
- loevborg 4y agoYou would have to spend 2083 days on a bus to travel 1.5 million km. That would be 63% of his 9 nomad years.
- dabeeeenster 4y agoIs this a serious reply? Do people travel 1.5m miles by bus? Think critically.
- liquidise 4y agoI think you missed the point of my reply. Vitalik sitting on non-private flights doesn't meaningfully add to pollution, the flight was already happening. The fuel was already earmarked for burning. "This person boarded a lot of flights that were going to pollute anyways" is a strange take. Sure he did it a lot, but if an individual contributes no measurable impact by sitting on a plane, then boarding 300+ flights pollutes roughly the same as boarding 0, since those 300+ flights happen anyway. If you want to argue about market forces, do that. But as a sibling comment said, blaming a consumer here is strange.
- dabeeeenster 4y agoThis isn't a serious reply either. What happens to planes if consumers choose to fly half as much?