Lifehacking The Planet
Apr. 27th, 2021 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bartstationbardIt's as simple as taking the bus. That carbon has already been budgeted for. It'll be burned whether your ass is in a seat or not. That car trip, however? That's one person's decision. It's about seven hours by greyhound from San Francisco to Arcata. Driving is about five hours. To me the math is pretty simple.
A passenger on the bus has a lot more choice than a driver. Some people do it dead drunk (be glad those people aren't driving...). You can read, watch a movie--Greyhound now has WiFi and streaming movies. Earplugs are good, sleeping is a championship choice. Greyhounds are a slice of life. Historians of the future would slaver for the experience you get on one of those trips.
No, I didn't just get off a bus. Thea did. But the buses I took in Scotland? I wouldn't have missed those trips for the world. I did go from Eureka to Oakland once. I'd gotten off a tallship and needed to get home. I had sealegs. The whole world was moving until I got on that bus.
There are plenty of other choices that at least keep each of us from digging that planetary hole we're in a little deeper. And that's how we're going to solve this. Making better choices. If we can have a good time doing that every day, we get to pass the planet on to the next generation better than we found it.
And if everyone rode them, the buses everywhere would be a whole lot more pleasant to take.
Just a thought.
A passenger on the bus has a lot more choice than a driver. Some people do it dead drunk (be glad those people aren't driving...). You can read, watch a movie--Greyhound now has WiFi and streaming movies. Earplugs are good, sleeping is a championship choice. Greyhounds are a slice of life. Historians of the future would slaver for the experience you get on one of those trips.
No, I didn't just get off a bus. Thea did. But the buses I took in Scotland? I wouldn't have missed those trips for the world. I did go from Eureka to Oakland once. I'd gotten off a tallship and needed to get home. I had sealegs. The whole world was moving until I got on that bus.
There are plenty of other choices that at least keep each of us from digging that planetary hole we're in a little deeper. And that's how we're going to solve this. Making better choices. If we can have a good time doing that every day, we get to pass the planet on to the next generation better than we found it.
And if everyone rode them, the buses everywhere would be a whole lot more pleasant to take.
Just a thought.
