[stubish]

Fun is a good thing to spend some of our CO2 emissions budget on. We need fun. A joyless society isn't worth saving.

[renewiltord]

Exactly. It's why I have a truck, actually. Sure, I could drive an electric Nissan Leaf, but come on. Is that life worth living?

[stubish]

Sure, if that is important to you. You are welcome to make sacrifices elsewhere. We will need to make sure you make them though, probably by taxing your petrol through the roof.

[renewiltord]

You’re welcome to try.

Both Boeing and I will win.

[vntok]

Win what?

[renewiltord]

The tax fight thing. He’s not going to get gas taxes increased. Anyone who tried would be wrecked in elections. No one gives a damn about “the climate” dude. We’ve got fun to have. And the power to keep that fun cheap.

[stubish]

Sure. Nothing will change unless enough people want it to change. And you are only able to reason with the reasonable. And maybe petrol taxes are not looked on favorably by the reasonable in your region, so you need a different method of fairly distributing costs. But berating people for wanting fun things is not a great way of getting people to see reason.

[cute_boi]

I, personally, don't believe this easter egg provides any valuable joy.

[ocdtrekkie]

I enjoyed it.

[culi]

some fun is more expensive than others. That's ~2.24 years of energy usage by the average US household

[t-writescode]

And a sendoff to the hard work of tens of thousands or more people.

Oh. No.

[bandyaboot]

That’s a fair sentiment, but in this particular case the portion of society that will be aware that this even happened, much let get joy from it, is a rounding error above none of society.

[klempner]

And 17 tons of CO2 is a rounding error above none of society's total emissions -- the US alone is around 5 billion tons per year.