If Global Warming Matters... Why aren't more calling for work at home?

[Damocles]

But "several companies" IS the BEGINNING of a movement toward universal telecommuting.

Your "point" was just another petty attempt at deriding anyone who disagrees with you regarding AGW...I merely stole your thunder by pointing out companies all across this nation are doing just what you suggested.

"Several Companies" is not a movement any more than several people is. You've "stolen" nothing at all. My question was about policy, not companies.

Your answer, when it is something that you supposedly want to happen, appears to be "let somebody else do it".... I'm good with that Zapps... but you haven't answered the question at all. Focus.

Why isn't the party of GW true believers working to save the planet by incentivizing all companies to keep employees home? Nobody has even suggested it from your party of supposed believers. It takes a republican engineer to come up with an idea that AlGores all over the world should have been striving for the past decade?

Not only that but you'd have true bipartisanship. Many republicans would love to get on board.

 

[Damocles]

The thing is, we could live so much better if fewer of us drove. Think of what you could buy with what you spend in automotive expenses!

That's my point. Less CO2 for GW true believers plus savings for those who are let's just say "iffy" equals bipartisan support. This is something that could really make a difference, but instead we get speeches about how we should "punish our enemies and reward our friends".

 

[leaningright]

The thing is, we could live so much better if fewer of us drove. Think of what you could buy with what you spend in automotive expenses!

So we just sit home and never go anywhere? Or we pay airlines a half month's salary for a trip somewhere in the US. It costs on average $600 per ticket to fly to the in-laws. That's $1800 for my small family. I can drive it for less than $300. All in the comfort of my own vehicle with no deadlines or body cavity searches and I can haul and carry whatever I can fit in my vehicle PLUS, I can carry whatever weapon I wish to protect my family. I got a little off topic though. As to work, twelve miles to work for me, 50 miles for several people around here, 25 miles to the grocery store. No, not driving is not an option for many.

 

[Anti-Party]

A simple question really...

To save on gas, pollution, etc. why isn't the left driving for incentives for companies to have people work from home whenever possible?

In this day and time, meetings can be held over the interwebs, training can be done with web meetings, you can watch whatever somebody does on your computer at their house, and what they run over your VPN network they use to log in, phone service can be delivered anywhere (also over the interwebs).

Why do we insist that people must work in some box in a city, and why wouldn't we want them to stay put so they don't pump CO2 into the air? Is it that cost incentives to push companies into making such a "responsible" choice would cost too much in revenue? Where is the drive by this President, and others who believe that their car causes cold weather in winter, to get companies to require people to drive less?

Yea. Google "work from home jobs". Mostly scammers

 

[tinfoil]

I am! I am! There's nothing I do here in this cubicle farm that I couldn't do at home. All I need is a computer, a router, a phone, a printer and broad band access and I could do my job from home.

Having said that...I worked at home under a 1099 when I was in the Carolinas and my wife was a royal pain in the ass. She could not accept that during working hours she could not dominate my time and attention because I had work to do. Drove me up a wall.

LOL

I think we have the answer to the OP.

 

[tinfoil]

I wonder if remote working is the final step before replacement by robotics.
If you don't need to be at some location to perform your duties, how hard would it be to create software to do your job?

 

[The Dude]

Don't bring up flying its 100x more polluting, and progressives love to fly!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Do they allow you to take the toxic waste home?

LOL No but I'm essentially a broker so......

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Right, the nearest public transport is 30 miles away... nor does that resolve the use of energy to get me to an unnecessary workplace. I think I'll give that a miss.

Meh....we could do better in this country with public transport and resolve a lot of problems. It would conserve a lot of energy and it can be very convenient in many circumstances. It would be nice to go out for a couple of beers or more and not have to worry about a DUI or paying $40 for a cab ride home, which isn't even an option in a lot of communities. Much of the industrialized world is way ahead of us in terms of public transportation. Having traveled abroad in countries with highly developed public transportation I found their public transport to be very convenient and highly cost effective. Not to mention the other strategic advantages of public transport. Done right it's a sound public investment.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

"Several Companies" is not a movement any more than several people is. You've "stolen" nothing at all. My question was about policy, not companies.

Your answer, when it is something that you supposedly want to happen, appears to be "let somebody else do it".... I'm good with that Zapps... but you haven't answered the question at all. Focus.

Why isn't the party of GW true believers working to save the planet by incentivizing all companies to keep employees home? Nobody has even suggested it from your party of supposed believers. It takes a republican engineer to come up with an idea that AlGores all over the world should have been striving for the past decade?

Not only that but you'd have true bipartisanship. Many republicans would love to get on board.

Because your argument is a strawman Damo. Those who believe in conservation aren't all progressive liberal Global Warming True Believer Democrats who walk mindlessly in lock step with what ever the party dictates. That's just a product of your well documented misanthropic imagination.

You're making an utterly false characterization of the issue.