Re:Roam has constructed an international housing network for...
by spodek on Monday February 12, 2018 @09:08AM
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Thank you for the comparison. According to this site https://co2.myclimate.org/en/portfolios?calculation_id=10570..., London-Bangkok round trip by coach is 3.6 tons of CO2, so two r/t flights would be 7.2.
The ones I know travel that much several times a year, which puts them over an order of magnitude above a suburban commuter, at least for travel costs.
So compared to most of the world, who don't have cars to commute, they're multiple orders of magnitude over.
Darn. I had hoped they weren't polluting so much. I hope they enjoy the environments they are helping pollute before they're gone.
So a car commuter with a 20 mile commute emits 2 tonnes of CO2 per year; a digital nomad without a car commute would need to fly around 20,000 miles a year to get the same amount of carbon emission -- which is the equivalent of two return flights from London to Bangkok, or 10-11 return flights from London to Lisbon.
So they are roughly on the same order of magnitude as a suburban car commute, but could go substantially higher with weekly return flights...