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By your logic, a government official saying "you can not kill your neighbor" is inciting violence because there is an implicit threat of the use of force if you do not comply. A go…

You are massively underestimating the environmental impacts. Every form of plastic in widespread use has been found to be a significant endocrine disruptor. The rate of plastic was…

Actually, no. You might say this about metals, for example, but nature does not produce the sort of high-energy low-information hydrocarbon chains that comprise nearly all plastics…

This is a dangerously specious argument. Industry manufactures items for consumers. Textiles, specifically, are rarely intermediate materials in or byproducts of manufacturing. If …

The best alternatives to plastic cutlery, cups and plates are reusable items. Hopefully the benefit of reusable vs disposable from an environmental perspective is obvious to you. W…

What do you think people did before plastic items were so prevalent? It was not so long ago. Ask anyone over 75 to remember their childhood. In the scenario you describe, you would…

> No, it's not! If you look at NGOs and charities, you find massively different numbers, even for flights with the same characteristics. Aside from those two sentences, nothing you…

Carbon credits are the Indulgences of the modern era. Now it's worry about harming the planet instead of worry of going to hell. My ethics happen to align with Martin Luthor on thi…

> Ultimately I'm just not satisfied with any estimate of CO2 emitted by flying in general. > Has anyone here seen a decent model of CO2 output caused by flying? The CO2 impact of f…

This seems very interesting. At my company (WegoWise) we've been working for the last 4 years to help solve some of the fundamental information problems that result in inefficient …

WegoWise.com - Remote devs welcome (located in Boston, MA) Hiring: Ruby developers (Mid to Senior-level) & UX designer We are a leading utility analytics company that helps our use…

Boston, MA - WegoWise.com WegoWise is an energy analytics company with funding, an enthusiastic and growing user base, an environmentally-conscious mission, a solid business plan, …