Podcasts Technology Astral Codex Ten Podcast Carbon Costs Quantified

Carbon Costs Quantified

Published: Aug. 26, 2021, 2:15 a.m.

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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/carbon-costs-quantified

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This post tries to quantify how much carbon is produced by various activities, lifestyle changes, and actors.

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\\xa0can\\u2019t stress enough how approximate and unreliable these numbers are. The reason I made this chart and other people didn\\u2019t isn\\u2019t because I\\u2019m smarter or harder-working than they are. It\\u2019s because I\\u2019m less responsible, and more willing to use numbers that are kind of grounded in wild guesses, and technically shouldn\\u2019t be compared to each other. My defense is they\\u2019re probably mostly order-of-magnitude correct, and I believe having probably mostly order-of-magnitude correct estimates is better than having no estimates at all.

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