It looks like plane is better. Trusting your numbers, you would save about 200 $ and decrease your travel time by 8 h. I think donating to Founders Pledge’s Climate Change Fund (CCF) removes at least 1 tCO2e/$ (see “Conservative impact analysis example of innovation in neglected tech” of this report), so you could potentially remove 200 tCO2e with the savings. This is much larger than the difference of CO2 you estimated, and so I guess it greatly outweights other environmental impacts too.
In addition, I think there are even more effective options than CCF, e.g. donating to the Long-Term Future Fund.
Hi Ben,
Thanks for sharing!
It looks like plane is better. Trusting your numbers, you would save about 200 $ and decrease your travel time by 8 h. I think donating to Founders Pledge’s Climate Change Fund (CCF) removes at least 1 tCO2e/$ (see “Conservative impact analysis example of innovation in
neglected tech” of this report), so you could potentially remove 200 tCO2e with the savings. This is much larger than the difference of CO2 you estimated, and so I guess it greatly outweights other environmental impacts too.
In addition, I think there are even more effective options than CCF, e.g. donating to the Long-Term Future Fund.
Thanks that’s my instinct as well, but if anyone wants to dig into the numbers more deeply would be happy for it.