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Me not flying to my once-a-year vacation is going to make effect 50,000 less of that, and yet that's what Nature implies I should do if I believe them. But if p
by smsm42 9y ago
Me not flying to my once-a-year vacation is going to make effect 50,000 less of that, and yet that's what Nature implies I should do if I believe them. But if people that can produce 50000x effect with only minor inconvenience to them don't do it, why should I do it for the price of very major inconvenience (forgoing long awaited vacation and never seeing other countries again ever)?
- jacobolus 9y agoNature did not state that you personally should do any particular thing. They only pointed out that travel accounts for 8% of global emissions and growing (and at current carbon emissions levels the world will be altered dramatically and irrevocably). Individual people’s personal sacrifices are barely going to dent global carbon emissions. We need to tackle these enormous global problems systematically. For example, we might be able to substitute less carbon-intensive means of long-distance transportation, impose significant taxes on jet fuel, figure out ways of discouraging business travel by plane, or raise public awareness of closer-to-home vacation destinations.