Launch HN: Bend (YC S22) – Automatically measure your company's carbon footprint
I’m not an economist by profession but I suspect (and at some point want to try and model) that one’s carbon footprint is just a linear function of three variables: the amount of money spent, the fraction of all money that’s in active circulation in the economy, and the fraction of clean energy in the total economy.<p>If you pay google 100 bucks, and See how google spends that money: it saves some, pays off its employees, it spends on infra and then finally on actual energy. Saved money is never accessed if parked. What it gives to other companies and people will spawn the same split we created when we paid google ad infinitum. Money spent on infra can have an outsized environmental impact (plastic, concrete) but I’m hoping we can ignore it, and the Final expenditure is pure energy.<p>I feel like if you keep breaking down every Avenue parts of your 100 bucks goes into, it’ll eventually go to creating energy more or less. Even if you choose google because they use green energy, the employees who are paid by google will use amazon powered Netflix so it might not matter any more than what’s the fraction of green energy in the total economy.<p>Thus the only solution to reduce your carbon footprint is to pretty much just spend less money! But no one wants that do they? They just want to have their cake and also eat it so we are just doomed.<p>Been outlining this for an article for a while, comments , prior research and criticism appreciated! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ramrajv.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-truly-reduce-your-carbon-footprint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ramrajv.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;how-to-truly-reduce-your-carbon...</a>