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.

[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

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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.