Post #2862341
2025-07-13 13:14 UTC
@yaxu@post.lurk.org
I agree with all your points except the last. Go ahead, foster these alternatives, convince people they are better, I will support such initiatives for my domain, but oppose authoritarian ideas such as banning conferences.
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@ids1024@mathstodon.xyz 2025-07-13 15:52
@johentsch@hostux.social @yaxu@post.lurk.org In the longer term (and in society more broadly), clearly part of the problem here is that we need more environmentally friendly methods of international travel. Solar-powered academic airships! (Well, maybe some other things. But hey, at least consider it...)
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@yaxu@post.lurk.org 2025-07-13 16:24
@johentsch@hostux.social I'm not advocating new laws. It can happen by Universities pushing their ecological policies a tiny bit further than they already have. Once a few more research orgs/institutions have no- or low-fly policies then it'll be untenable to have short long-haul trips to generic conference facilities to try to talk to people between intensive powerpoint presentation sessions.