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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

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Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ah. This is a simple mistake.

You seem to think that owners of commercial properties switch off the lights, heating and/or AC when they're empty.

In reality they leave them on, then produce useful literature about how it's our fault the climate is fucked because we forgot to unplug a 12 volt phone charger.

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- Shialac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Easy fix, eat the rich
  
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  - SuckMyWang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Short term increase in emissions for long term decrease
    
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- alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is the answer, I work in a corporate office that is heated regardless of whether I am present or not.
  
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- SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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).
  
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