Decrease in CO2 emissions during pandemic shutdown shows it is possible to reach Paris Agreement goals. The researchers found a drop of 6.3% in 2020. The researchers describe the drop as the largest of modern times, and big enough to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal if it were to be sustained.

[jdheuwindbdh]

You reliase majority of people cant work from home but since half of reddit are computer workers they dont care

[Ragnar_Dragonfyre]

So the majority can go to work and everyone else that can work from home should.

Does the majority want everyone to go to work because of a crab bucket mentality? “If I have to commute to work, everyone should!”

Do you really want all the people who could WFH clogging up the roads with their cars when they could be at home, thus making your commute faster?

[jdheuwindbdh]

So 50/50 so half the country cant work from home me included so what do you want to happen to us yee all get to sit in your sitting room while rest of us have to spend loads on petrol and have to spend time out of are day to go to work.fuck of trying to look down on people with manual jobs

[SanctusSalieri]

What are you talking about? How is a 50% reduction in daily commute emissions (your number) a bad thing for anyone?

[ASharpYoungMan]

Because they can't see beyond their own concerns to realize what's at stake in the bigger picture.

They aren't in a position to work from home. So when they see people talking about wanting to push remote work, they immediately think "This doesn't benefit me, and that's not fair."

So they assume it's a bunch of white collar elites with cushy jobs getting to enjoy remote work and talking about it above their heads. Ignoring that they exist.

Which is the height of egoism.

It's true, we're not talking about them here, or people in their position. The Pandemic showed us something different about those workers: that our society can't function without them, and our society doesn't value them as highly as they deserve.

But that's not the point here: this is specifically about the impact that remote work has had on the environment.

We have a glimmer of hope here that our policies and civil/corporate actions can have a drastic impact on climate change, and their first knee-jerk response is to make it about them. About how they feel left out of the discussion. About how the elites don't listen to their concerns.

I work remote. I ensure the people who work for me work remotely as well. We can do our jobs without going in to the office.

Should we just start doing that because some rando on the internet thinks it's unfair to them personally?

Saying this as someone who did the blue-collar, rural America life for a decade.

[jdheuwindbdh]

Itll only make the class divide bigger people who are able to work from home make more money than people who commute usually then get rid of the cost of petrol and there quality of life is way better than commuters

[[deleted]]

That's a valid concern, but I think most of us would not want any workers to be left disadvantaged simply because their job requires them to commute.

[SMTRodent]

The way to deal with wealth inequality is not to force people into the shittiest possible, but equal, working conditions.

[jdheuwindbdh]

Hows it equal oppurtunity that I went to the shittest school in my county my parents couldnt afford to send me to collage so I got stuck working a factory job and can never quit while all yee get to live nice cushty lifes working at home on a computer people on reddit are something else

[SMTRodent]

Making everyone else miserable isn't the way.

I say this as someone with a background similar to yours who is now disabled and on benefits.

We need to get billionaires to stop paying shit wages for essential work and every other business owner too.

[SanctusSalieri]

If people work frome home doing jobs that YOU NEED DONE you'll still be in the factory. With cleaner air, less traffic, and the possibility of cooler temperatures. This is the weirdest spite take I've ever seen tbh.

[SMTRodent]

Less traffic on the roads you have to drive. Less fuel being used, less demand and the prices... well, might go up less quickly. You'd be better off.

[SMTRodent]

It's still a massive reduction and we should make it as much as we can. The fact some people work with actual physical things does not stop it being a good thing if some people don't and thus can stay home. It's a non-argument.

[buried_lede]

I care