When I need to fly I just charter a Lear Jet. I fly point to point, thus saving an intermediate stop or stops and the congested flight space around hub cities. I haven't done the calculation but I it seems reasonable to expect that I cut emissions this way. Plus I avoid the TSA and all that.
Just kidding. On May 21, 2013, at 9:40 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > People argued that an effort to promote behavior which does > not maximize utility given the budget constraint cannot be > effective because there will not be enough buy-in. > > The idea here is that we may be able to create a short-term > disturbance, but over time the system will move back > to its old equilibrium. > > My answer here is that short term disturbances can have > permanent effects when they move the system into the > attraction basin of a different equilibrium. This is > exactly what we are trying to do. > > This objection to the no-flying pledge also overlooks that > people have a will, they are not just passive utility > maximizers. I know so much about our local electric > utility, so many things they did in order to put a brake on > renewable energy under various pretexts, that I am motivated > to put LED lightbulbs into my home just in order to minimize > my electric bill, because I don't want this organization to > be able to do more harm. Despite the fact that the savings > in elecricity are less than the price of these bulbs (this > was a few years back when LED's still costed $70 and more a > piece). I thought I had this extra money because I don't > own a car and therefore save lots of money each month on > maintenance and insurance etc. > > This is the rebound effect going in our favor, not against > us. Here is another related example: My salary at the U is > so low that I feel obligated to make my classes radical > otherwise my low salary would be not worth it to me. I am > trying to squeeze as much utility I can get from my low > salary. > > I don't think I am the only one who is this irrational and > tries to fight back against the harm inflicted on everyone > by the greed of a well-connected elite. This is not > altruism, this is simply outrage, and this is not the > exclusive domain of some activists, lots of people are doing > it already. > > I am also spending a lot of time and money in court to > combat some corrupt land-use practices here in Salt Lake > City (developers building in the flood plane of the Jordan > River and closing a big strip of open space going through > our city). I am not the only one. It is amazing how many > other citizens are doing these kinds of things already now. > Some of them are paying thousands of dollars to save the > Jordan river. I expect their number to swell. > > Hans G Ehrbar > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
