[bdangubic]

data to support this claim? you are (incorrectly) assuming that since employees are not commuting to work they are just home and cars are just collecting dust in a garage… but of course you go to the store and mall and park and … in the middle of the day and you see a whole other story :)

[jumping_frog]

One off excursions are totally different than a 5 day back and forth. I don't have data but one can guess.

[brantonb]

I have data for myself. My annual driving dropped from roughly 9,000 miles to 5,000 miles when I switched to WFH. In addition to avoiding the daily back and forth, I’d often make a detour on my evening commute to get groceries for the next couple of days. Now I plan things out better and make fewer shopping trips, as well.

I wonder if I could negotiate cheaper car insurance rates. I’m driving far less and on safer streets, rarely getting on a major highway.

[bdangubic]

lets say you are good representative of a general population… how much of a climate change “dent” do you think we made?

[brantonb]

I was simply providing a single data point. Please feel free to use that to support your theory or ignore it.

[bdangubic]

there are many positives of WFH but climate change is not one of them

[bdangubic]

you don’t write policies based on guesses…

[insane_dreamer]

We have data from COVID when most people were working from home.

[bdangubic]

COVID is an outlier mate… it wasn’t just that most people were working from home, it was that everything stopped. if that was sustainable long-term that we are all on lockdown globally sure - we’d get traction in climate change and fast. unfortunately though…

[insane_dreamer]

Yeah, during the initial lockdown period everything stopped but afterwards things resumed a bit more normally as businesses opened, etc., while a large number of people were still working from home.