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data to support this claim? you are (incorrectly) assuming that since employees are not commuting to work they are just home and cars are just collecting dust i

data to support this claim? you are (incorrectly) assuming that since employees are not commuting to work they are just home and cars are just collecting dust in a garage… but of course you go to the store and mall and park and … in the middle of the day and you see a whole other story :)

jumping_frog 2y ago
One off excursions are totally different than a 5 day back and forth. I don't have data but one can guess.
- brantonb 2y ago
  I have data for myself. My annual driving dropped from roughly 9,000 miles to 5,000 miles when I switched to WFH. In addition to avoiding the daily back and forth, I’d often make a detour on my evening commute to get groceries for the next couple of days. Now I plan things out better and make fewer shopping trips, as well. I wonder if I could negotiate cheaper car insurance rates. I’m driving far less and on safer streets, rarely getting on a major highway.
  - bdangubic 2y ago
    lets say you are good representative of a general population… how much of a climate change “dent” do you think we made?
    - brantonb 2y ago
      I was simply providing a single data point. Please feel free to use that to support your theory or ignore it.
- bdangubic 2y ago
  you don’t write policies based on guesses…
- bdangubic 2y ago
  there are many positives of WFH but climate change is not one of them
insane_dreamer 2y ago
We have data from COVID when most people were working from home.
- bdangubic 2y ago
  COVID is an outlier mate… it wasn’t just that most people were working from home, it was that everything stopped. if that was sustainable long-term that we are all on lockdown globally sure - we’d get traction in climate change and fast. unfortunately though…
  - insane_dreamer 2y ago
    Yeah, during the initial lockdown period everything stopped but afterwards things resumed a bit more normally as businesses opened, etc., while a large number of people were still working from home.

jumping_frog 2y ago

One off excursions are totally different than a 5 day back and forth. I don't have data but one can guess.

brantonb 2y ago
I have data for myself. My annual driving dropped from roughly 9,000 miles to 5,000 miles when I switched to WFH. In addition to avoiding the daily back and forth, I’d often make a detour on my evening commute to get groceries for the next couple of days. Now I plan things out better and make fewer shopping trips, as well. I wonder if I could negotiate cheaper car insurance rates. I’m driving far less and on safer streets, rarely getting on a major highway.
- bdangubic 2y ago
  lets say you are good representative of a general population… how much of a climate change “dent” do you think we made?
  - brantonb 2y ago
    I was simply providing a single data point. Please feel free to use that to support your theory or ignore it.
bdangubic 2y ago
you don’t write policies based on guesses…
bdangubic 2y ago
there are many positives of WFH but climate change is not one of them

insane_dreamer 2y ago

We have data from COVID when most people were working from home.

bdangubic 2y ago
COVID is an outlier mate… it wasn’t just that most people were working from home, it was that everything stopped. if that was sustainable long-term that we are all on lockdown globally sure - we’d get traction in climate change and fast. unfortunately though…
- insane_dreamer 2y ago
  Yeah, during the initial lockdown period everything stopped but afterwards things resumed a bit more normally as businesses opened, etc., while a large number of people were still working from home.