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I was under the impression there was overwhelming effort put into environmental maintenance on-site - ensuring that as much as possible, all traces of the yearly occupation are eliminated after the end of the event.

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Efforts to leave no trace should be applauded, yet the event demands emitting a lot of carbon:

- travel to and from

- consumables and their transport

- air conditioning onsite

- burning things

So what’s the solution? Ban people from participating in activities where they have to travel too far?

An almond tax would probably balance it out.

Reinstate the fun police from the COVID era. These people will decide for you how you will be allowed to entertain yourself. That means no gathering in groups, no traveling and an end to all that frivolous activity such as dancing and drinking. You will sit around the tv with your family and watch what they provide for you to watch.

A person traveling to this event doesn’t even register as a blip on the carbon emissions scale, please stop this rhetoric that implies your average person can have any meaningful impact.

Every person is part of the definition of the average person. Of course, you can take a look at the outliers, but they are rare, by definition.

If you start segmenting the set of people along all possible dimensions in order to find "local outliers", then eventually, everyone will become an outlier in one of the sets.

I think it's reasonable to say that everyone should do as well as they can, and if everyone does that, the average person will have an impact.

carbon-negative is the goal within the next decade - https://burningman.medium.com/burning-man-project-2030-envir...

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