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[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 years ago (23 children)

The pandemic handed us all a super easy win on doing something about climate change by forcing a large chunk of us to (temporarily, it seems) stop sitting in our cars twice a day. Instant reduction in the amount of CO2 we're producing. It's not 100% of the solution, but it's not nothing, and a year in, most of us had adapted just fine (I'd argue, most who could WFH, prospered, seeing a lot more benefit than negative).

But nah - let's get back in our cars, waste time at the beginning and end of every day, spend more money on coffees and lunch, and breathe in the cubicle goodness because, fuck it - that's the way we've always done it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also fixing rent by not making it necessary to live in the same city you work in giving everyone more choices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hell, you don't even have to live in the same COUNTRY! My brother teaches "at" a school in Greenland from his apartment in Denmark, only going to Greenland (flight paid by the school, of course) a couple months a year.

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