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A fast food run (on the ground local transport) can become electrified and run on renewables. Flight transported goods is much harder to make run on renewables.
by bjelkeman-again 8y ago
A fast food run (on the ground local transport) can become electrified and run on renewables. Flight transported goods is much harder to make run on renewables. Even if a flight runs on 100% biofuels, the high altitude climate forcing effects of the emissions seems to be unavoidable and are as big as the CO2 emission itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviation#Greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_passenger_kilometre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_avia...
To avoid going over the average 2C temperature rise we are going to need to cut all these emissions. Air transport emissions will become a hard nutt to crack.
- oblio 8y agoAir transport emissions are generally for things you really can't avoid. A huge chunk of land traffic is unnecessary. I'd focus on air transport last, you need to pick your battles ;)
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoOne could make just as vaild of an argument for the other way around. Telling people to "just don't click the 1-day shipping option" is like saying "just ride the bus" it's not that simple and while it's not straight up tone deaf it's a far cry from perfect pitch.
- oblio 8y agoIt's not "just ride the bus", it's: * get a smaller car, one that uses less gas and pollutes less * share a ride * ride the bus, take a train/tram/trolley/ferry/etc. * ride a bike, e-bike, scooter, motorcycle * and another million improvements or alternatives Meanwhile, if I'm Romania and I want to order something from Japan, as an individual or company, I either order by plane, in which case it probably arrives in a few days, or I wait a few months. If I want to fly over there, my only realistic option is flying... The gap between "must have" and "nice to have" is much, much higher between land transport and air transport.