Posted on 08/08/2021 1:01:14 AM PDT by blueplum
...There’s an intuitive assumption – encouraged by lockdown memories of rush-hour quiet and dissipated smog – that remote work is de facto better for the environment. But it’s not yet clear how radically shifting the way business is done will alter the climate impacts of doing business...
...IEA’s analysis suggests workers who use public transport or drive less than four miles each way could actually increase their total emissions by working from home...
... Will remote work mean they move from city apartments to sprawling suburban homes, which use, on average, three times more energy? Will they buy cars? Will they be electric or gas-powered SUVs?...
... hybrid working could create a “worst-case scenario”, according to a June study from the Carbon Trust and Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications. “This split could result in consuming more energy ...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
They will live where they want to live, and they will drive what they want to drive.
I find it amazing that these folks would want us all stuck on the parking lots known as freeways twice a day to save a few tons of CO2. Or maybe they just want us all forced onto trains.
They don’t know precisely what they want. What they do know is they are experiencing a great itch that they want to scratch by once again increasing their control over us. Over and over again, personal choice and personal freedom end up being in their crosshairs. I’d ask, do they think that we’ve lost the ability to detect patterns?, but for the most part, meaning, in the case of the most of our fellow adults, it appears we have lost that capacity.
The most likely cause of this increasing trend toward stupidity amongst our fellow adults is that the vast bulk of them have thoughtlessly slipped beneath the moral waves and are mired in grave personal sin. Over time this markedly weakens one’s individual intellect.
If the left can’t kill us with the vaccination they want to herd us all together in high rises.
It's hot here so smokers from the nearby apartments sit in their cars so they can be air conditioned while they smoke.
Not sure what they are smoking but sometimes the cars are there for hours.
That'll protect the environment from fossil fuels.
An article like this exists for one of two reasons. Either it fits into the model of article which is “everything you do is wrong and you should feel guilty about it”, which is an extremely popular format -or- it’s a rather pathetic propaganda attempt to push people back to the city because having suceededly wildly in scaring everyone *out* of the cities, the Left is now coming slowly to the realization they have destroyed the economic basis of the cities.
Or maybe they just want us all forced onto trains.
Yes, they do want us all forced onto trains.
For a one-way trip.
I’m all in favor of personal choice and flexible work arrangements that allow people to make better work-life decisions. That doesn’t mean government should use the power of eminent domain to build expressways from every suburban cul de sac into the center city. We would be better off with denser cities in which more people were able to live close to their jobs. Transportation issues are highly local and I am always ready to allow for exceptions, but as a general rule, urban expressways are like big public housing projects: more bad ideas from the 1960’s that haven’t stood the test of time and that we are now trying, very expensively, to unwind. No more commuter sewers through residential neighborhoods. No more urban expressways that create barriers and disrupt and degrade close-in neighborhoods. If commuters want to drive, fine. But they can do their driving on regular city streets, with sidewalks, stoplights, and safe crossings every block. If that’s too slow for them, they can take the train. Or move back into the city, help gentrify older neighborhoods, and perhaps even help recover a healthy civic culture.
Leftists will never be satisfied as long as people have liberty to do what they want. Even liberty in the smallest and most tiny of things.
And it probably ain't happening. We have seen how they run the cities where criminals are saints, cops are villains and stealing is sanctioned.
Something that doesn’t exist can’t be measured…duh…
Hah!
Trying to lay the groundwork for getting the proper back in their cubicles.
“No more urban expressways that create barriers and disrupt and degrade close-in neighborhoods.”
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This thoughtful comment reminded me of a particular urban expressway that, when it was built in the United States near the middle of the 20th century, certainly created barriers, and clearly degraded a close-in neighborhood.
Thus urban expressway is less than a mile in length. It is currently the shortest, most heavily traveled urban expressway in the world.
Can you cite the precise name of the urban expressway to which I am alluding?
Here’s a hint. The chances of almost anybody citing the name of this urban expressway off the top of their head are essentially nil. Research is needed.
I freepmailed a guess to leave the question open if anyone else wants to play.
If that’s too slow for them, they can take the train.
now this is a comment most likely heard in the NE. Out west we just smile - train? subway? what’s that?
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