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> If a single employee drives to the factory, it's no longer carbon-free I'm actively really trying to understand your perspective here, and how you do... anyt
by ctoth 2y ago
> If a single employee drives to the factory, it's no longer carbon-free
I'm actively really trying to understand your perspective here, and how you do... anything? at all? Ever? Do you not leave the house?
If I drive to the factory with my EV and work on a hydrogen airplane using electric tools charged with solar panels, this seems perfectly reasonable. What does not seem reasonable is your complete anti-human anti-anything attitude.
Our house is not on fire. If it were, I would invest in putting the fire out. I would not just stop doing anything at all and say oh gosh anything I do will make the fire worse.
- 9dev 2y agoIm very comfortable with the thought of being unable to make the situation better, but at least I can try to avoid making it actively worse: for example by avoiding unnecessary luxuries like private jets. That is hardly anti-human. > If I drive to the factory with my EV and work on a hydrogen airplane using electric tools charged with solar panels, this seems perfectly reasonable. Again: just because you don’t burn gasoline doesn’t mean you’re not causing CO2 emissions (or generate toxic waste etc.). What I am arguing against is unnecessary production of technology—such as personal aviation machines. Our house is definitely on fire, as a mindbogglingly huge number of scientists has been announcing for quite a while now. People in North America and Europe just don’t get to enjoy the flames yet. And there is a clear category of things that would be worthwhile: less flights; less concrete and steel; less driving; more local production. It just requires the will to accept painful changes to our way of life.