Presumably your house is not just a giant glass box though. If that office was not built and not heated it would offset your house Heating as well as everyone else’s.
Obviously not all offices are skyscrapers, but the ones that are are insanely wasteful. Fun fact Heating and Cooling to Greenhouse is expensive and that’s what skyscrapers are giant greenhouses they are wildly inefficient. And there are definitely tons of Industry that we just shove and to skyscrapers for literally no reason that they could be done from home without any change in workflow other than the lack of a commute
You seem to think that corporate owners of commercial properties switch off the lights, heating and/or AC when they’re empty.
In reality they leave them on even in empty properties, then lecture the rest of us about how it’s our fault the climate is fucked because we forgot to unplug a 12 volt phone charger or flushed the toilet twice.
On a related note, remember that time you put the lid of a cola bottle in the wrong recycling bin? Clearly you’re a hypocrite and in no position to suggest a factory dumping 12 tonnes of microplastics in a river is bad.
If working from home was standard, there’d be less need for offices, and less, smaller, offices would exist. Leading to less energy wasted in heating offices (as well as .kre space for residential).
Presumably your house is not just a giant glass box though. If that office was not built and not heated it would offset your house Heating as well as everyone else’s.
Obviously not all offices are skyscrapers, but the ones that are are insanely wasteful. Fun fact Heating and Cooling to Greenhouse is expensive and that’s what skyscrapers are giant greenhouses they are wildly inefficient. And there are definitely tons of Industry that we just shove and to skyscrapers for literally no reason that they could be done from home without any change in workflow other than the lack of a commute
Ah. This is a simple mistake.
You seem to think that corporate owners of commercial properties switch off the lights, heating and/or AC when they’re empty.
In reality they leave them on even in empty properties, then lecture the rest of us about how it’s our fault the climate is fucked because we forgot to unplug a 12 volt phone charger or flushed the toilet twice.
On a related note, remember that time you put the lid of a cola bottle in the wrong recycling bin? Clearly you’re a hypocrite and in no position to suggest a factory dumping 12 tonnes of microplastics in a river is bad.
Easy fix, eat the rich
Short term increase in emissions for long term decrease
This is the answer, I work in a corporate office that is heated regardless of whether I am present or not.
But to be fair, the office is never empty during office hours, so it’s not like an individual working from home would allow them to turn off the heat.
If working from home was standard, there’d be less need for offices, and less, smaller, offices would exist. Leading to less energy wasted in heating offices (as well as .kre space for residential).