Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
It does illustrate how much plane and cruise travel is unnecessary. That represents unnecessary carbon usage etc.. That we can do without it, do the same thing with the internet as we do by flying all over the place, and life goes on (yea life is crazy in say China or South Korea but that is obviously not what I'm referring to, I mean all this travel all over the world is unnecessary to our lives).

It's like the great recession and how carbon usage went down and yet life went on. These are models of what is possible. Now all that is left is to aim for them without an epidemic, without so much economic suffering as a severe recession. Yea I know the human race is more likely to continue on a suicidal path, hey uninhabitable planet in 50 years or something, I mean most of our choices seem for annihilation, but there are hints sometimes, another option is possible. The universe is gonna keep sending them until it doesn't.
I agree. I'll never understand the need for countless face to face meetings. You'd think now that we have the technology, we'd just teleconference. And, as we know, most business meetings are pointless anyway.