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You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.
by axlee 4y ago
You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.
- tamaharbor 4y agoOr a very small fraction of a volcano.
- pedrossmelo 4y agoLmao "at least elon's jet is not a volcano"
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoYou can say that about anyone, suddenly pollution is then non-issue.
- tamaharbor 4y agoWe need to adapt to climate change, rather than try and stop it, which is probably impossible.
- Geezus-42 4y agoWe need to do both. Change is coming, no stopping that, but how much change we can effect.
- jamiegreen 4y agoAs an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.
- gregoriol 4y agoConsidering SpaceX, definitely not.
- _5uxp 4y agolets not talk about how he lead the electric car revolution, that's just a huge positive thing.
- arrrg 4y agoJury‘s still out on that, mostly because it‘s still up for debate whether replacing gas cars 1:1 with electric cars is a good idea. I don’t doubt that we actually need electric cars, the important question is just whether that’s all we need or whether we need other transformations (radically fewer cars and less space for cars in cities, for example). This second goal is something Elon has actively worked against, for example with his Hyperloop bullshit.
- itsoktocry 4y ago>As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined. This is such a terrible mindset. So we're going to allow the rich to do whatever damage they want to the environment, personally, if they construct widgets that are slightly less harmful than the next best widget? It's this sort of hypocrisy that prevents people from buying in to the environmental movement: celebrities lecturing the rest of us while they don't alter their lifestyle one iota. The proletariat will never accept it.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoif you ignore spacex maybe
- immmmmm 4y agobecause sport EV for the rich is "net positive environmental impact"???
- the_only_law 4y ago> he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined. He probably could be this or that potentially