Ugh im so bored I dont really care to do this back and forth anymore. Ill just say, I work at a large company(think walmart size) that my main role is basically to drive changes worldwide. I dont want to doxx myself but I work with many teams to calculate and have visibility into our emissions very verrry clearly. My team looks at many aspects including transportation to work, electric use in the buildings, waste etc. With that said, in all our calculations, direct to customer/distribution air shipments always makes up 90%+ of our CO2 impact at every one of our sites. This is not revealed to the public for multiple reasons. People lie on their LCAs all the fucking time. I would like to say that when I see what the EPA shows for business sector emissions I laugh and think they probably have their info wrong (at least for the business sector).
From my perspective, if we werent selling as much then we would have less emissions but its a catch 22. I keep thinking if we change our fleet to electric ground/ rail/ ocean only it could reduce impact by a lot but the customers would get mad for delays. I think at the very least the publics opinion on fast deliveries needs to change then we can learn to cut back. The best way to reduce emissions is to just stop buying. If you guys truly truly want to reduce emissions then just stop buying. This is why I said to reduce wages and lead to this rant. I cant tell you the complexities of the stuff you buy… it might have a fucked supply chain where they source raw material from brazil, assembled in asia, warehoused in the US and sold to EU… its crazy, but nobody even thinks of this.
I’ll probably leave it here. If you have suggestions, be my guest. If you want to scream at capitalism then i would think you are right but we need solutions not more angst.
Ugh im so bored I dont really care to do this back and forth anymore. Ill just say, I work at a large company(think walmart size) that my main role is basically to drive changes worldwide. I dont want to doxx myself but I work with many teams to calculate and have visibility into our emissions very verrry clearly. My team looks at many aspects including transportation to work, electric use in the buildings, waste etc. With that said, in all our calculations, direct to customer/distribution air shipments always makes up 90%+ of our CO2 impact at every one of our sites. This is not revealed to the public for multiple reasons. People lie on their LCAs all the fucking time. I would like to say that when I see what the EPA shows for business sector emissions I laugh and think they probably have their info wrong (at least for the business sector).
From my perspective, if we werent selling as much then we would have less emissions but its a catch 22. I keep thinking if we change our fleet to electric ground/ rail/ ocean only it could reduce impact by a lot but the customers would get mad for delays. I think at the very least the publics opinion on fast deliveries needs to change then we can learn to cut back. The best way to reduce emissions is to just stop buying. If you guys truly truly want to reduce emissions then just stop buying. This is why I said to reduce wages and lead to this rant. I cant tell you the complexities of the stuff you buy… it might have a fucked supply chain where they source raw material from brazil, assembled in asia, warehoused in the US and sold to EU… its crazy, but nobody even thinks of this.
I’ll probably leave it here. If you have suggestions, be my guest. If you want to scream at capitalism then i would think you are right but we need solutions not more angst.