BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
Understanding environmental impact is hard.
Me and my gas-guzzling mini-van have a much lower impact than most "green car" owners... simply because I drive way, way less than average.
Planes aren't bad for the environment because they burn lots of fuel. Planes are bad for the environment because they are convenient and encourage, enable and create a market for massive amounts of travel.
Switching to advanced, super-clean vehicles won't improve things nearly as much as telecommuting would.
BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
I worry that every time someone claims they are helping the environment by making some activity "more efficient", they will ultimately be proven wrong.
More efficient means cheaper, which means we just do more of whatever it is.
Plane travel is the classic example, but there are others.
If we want to curb emissions, we need to add friction in the right places - which literally means making things more expensive and less competitive. That's a very hard sell in today's world.
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