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The climate benefits of a four-day workweek

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36 pointsphilmcp9 comments

Too many arguments are shoe-horning "environmental benefits" to artificially insert ethical justifications. It's getting a little tedious when it's equally applied to marriage, house ownership, office politics and LED lights (NYT even cited environmental benefits to being less tall).

Not being alive also has environmental benefits but it's not necessarily worth mentioning.

> Not being alive also has environmental benefits but it's not necessarily worth mentioning.

Go on r/collapse, and you'll see that being mentioned. Although in a roundabout way because I believe it's against Reddit's rules.

Anti-natalism is very strong there, though, and most will be openly hostile to anyone suggesting they want to bring more people into the world.

I applied it sarcastically

This is starting to sound like a 10 year old trying to convince their parents to get them a dog.

Indeed, we can go back to living at pre-Industrial Revolution standards and have a great effect on the climate.

It reminds me that time when we were made to stay locked at home and some people where elated because "Nature was taking over and Earth was healing it self..". Some even mentioned the "Overpopulation problem" while bodies were pilling up in some countries/cities.

This one is not as tone deaf but it reads as light as a kid wanting to play video games all day and only eat candy..

Maybe we ought to listen to the proverbial 10 year old, their ideas haven't been broken by cultural and societal "realities", and it's good to try to fix things & escape local maxima. Not everything needs to stay the same.

I expected this to be “The climate benefits of less productivity” but on reading it turned out there wasn’t much impact on productivity. I did find it amusing that a prominently featured objection was “it might give people more time for leisure activities that are bad for the environment”. No work and no play either.

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