Is this the 21st century equivalent of big game hunting?
Driving around africa in a truck for 19 months isn't exactly environmentally friendly. How many miles to the gallon do those things do?
Driving around africa in a truck for 19 months isn't exactly environmentally friendly. How many miles to the gallon do those things do?
I'm just trying to point out that we're doing more damage demanding brand new phones every year, demanding that every shop around has fresh produce from every corner of the world etc etc etc. Him driving around africa has probably lower impact than an average tourist flying somewhere for holiday.
He also didn't probably use as much electricity as you do at the moment which is likely generated mostly in non environmentally friendly way. Ignoring the fact that many parts of your equipment came on ships from China. From factories which generate a lot of pollution.
Also, if you want to be perfect better-world-optimizer, it is really hard. Even if the earth would get ever slightly more polluted by this single car, the impact of thousands of people reading the story could still be positive. It makes them think about nature, probably slightly increases their well being, and so on.
1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1...
I thought it might have been single digits