A big chunk of Antarctic ice has just broken off, highlighting the changing climate or our planet.  Experts say that even if we eliminated our carbon dioxide emissions right now, the warming cycle would continue.  And even the most promising technologies take years to implement, I mean how easy is it for every motorist to trade in her or his internal combustion vehicle for an electric model?
    But this solution is easy to implement:   the four-day work week. 

    1. Instead of working five 8-hour days, you work four 10-hour days.  That's four 3-day weekends per month. That's one-day less of commuting, and one day less of gasoline being burned.
    2. Some businesses and government agencies are already allowing employees to give up a few hours of their own labor, and those work-hours are given to another employee who would otherwise be laid off.  A version of this could let workers give up their work-hours and work only four days. 
    3. A workplace that typically operates from Monday through Friday might still do so, but with fewer staff on Monday and Friday.  
    4. Air quality in big cities is noticeably cleaner on holidays when many people are off work, out of school or out of town. If the four-day work week was adopted on a worldwide basis, the results should be immediate.

 

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