[Gigachad]

They also get promoted as the future of fighting climate change while ignoring the fact that these solutions not only don't scale, but they can consume more resources than a fully integrated in to the system person. Setting up your own rain tanks, batteries, solar farm etc takes up a lot of resources and land space. It's debatable that they are doing anything better for the environment than someone who lives in an inner city apartment, who doesn't purchase many consumer goods, and benefits from highly efficient economies of scale like getting power from a nuclear power plant.

[pbourke]

> land space

They’re living on a boat, so wouldn’t that be literally zero land space?

[dmitriid]

Except all the infrastructre on land they use: ports, showers, waste disposal, food provisioning...

[Gigachad]

Same thing goes. It wouldn't scale for everyone to go live on boats.

[Klonoar]

I don’t believe they claim the boat to be anything other than their desired way to live. Most people in this thread seem to be injecting that the boat is a sustainability bit, but if you read their older blog posts it doesn’t come across that way necessarily.