Returning To the Office is (Very) Bad for the Environment
I want you to take a guess at how many trees you would have to plant to make up for just 1% of Americans returning to the office.
If one out of 100 people who were commuting the average distance to work prior to the pandemic went back to doing so, how many trees would we have to plant every year? And keep in mind we need to let them grow - what we’re really talking about is the permanent reforestation of fully mature trees. We need to sequester the CO2 permanently.
Go ahead, think of a big number of big trees.
And again, this is only the United States, and only 1%
Care to hazard a guess?
180,000,000 - we would need to plant one hundred eighty million trees every single year to offset the carbon produced from 1% of the US commute.?
That’s planting a new forest the size of Connecticut, every year, for 1% of the solution.
On the one hand, we have real estate owners, automotive manufacturers, virtue-signaling CEOs and urban officials shouting about the need to return to the office, and citing iffy and largely immeasurable concepts such as “mentorship” and the like as pro-RTO rhetoric.
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On the other hand, we have hard data.
That data shows returning just 1% of workers to the office is an environmental disaster at a rate of 700,000 trees every single workday.
And of course, that’s just carbon. We’re producing literally tons of other pollutants just from the cars themselves, to say nothing of building and keeping up freeways and parking structures to accommodate them.?
Remember all this when someone pushes RTO or RTP. Remember it when newspapers speak of urban blight due to lack of commuters, or business magazines tout some CEO who wants to take a hard stance against WFA.?
Remember 180,000,000 trees = 1%
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1 年There’s a very simple answer to that statement! Stop cutting mature trees down to make way for bullshit products like palm oil! Stop destroying natural environments for profit! And STOP THE ELITE from fuelling multiple gas guzzling jets and mega yachts while telling everyone else they’re a problem to the planet and environment! Working in an office, working amongst others is natural and beneficial for humanities wellbeing! We thrive of interaction with others and zoom doesn’t cut it! We feed off of and create energy when we interact at close quarters! I listen to the protagonist’s of Co2 fear cult and find you all nothing more than a delusional ill/uneducated/ easily manipulated bunch of morons! You don’t give two hoots about the planet or those that inhabit it! You talk of livestock as being responsible for a fantasy created by psychopaths too enable the enslavement of humanity! They cull wildlife on mass with no benefit whatsoever as opposed to feeding those who are struggling to put food on a table! They keep nations of people in poverty exploit/use them as test subjects and if anyone representing those stand in their way they are also culled! I find anyone backing, agreeing or supporting this cult a complete abomination!
CO2 math? ? 130,000,000 pre-COVID commuters? 30 miles average per day? .89 lbs of CO2 per mile? = 3,471,000,000 lbs of CO2 per day? X 5 days per week? X 52 weeks per year? = 902,460,000,000 lbs per year? / 2000 for tons? = 451,230,000 tons of CO2 per year? ? X 40 trees required per ton sequestered? = 18,049,200,000 trees? X .01 = 180,492,000 trees.? / 50 trees per acre? = 3,609,840 acres of forest to reduce commute CO2 by 1%? ? Size of Connecticut in acres: 3,218,000?