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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

how much carbon dioxide does this supercommute produce, expressed in cars/day?

edit: i guess it's just cars

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to know in paper straws per day.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How many bananas for miles travelled.

[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago

The commute itself? Hard to say. But according to the article, a billionaire produces emissions equivalent to a million average people.

There are 3,311 billionaires.

Once they are eliminated, that's the emissions of 3.3 billion people taken care of.