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"Each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide or its equivalent — your share of the emissions on a cross-country flight one-way from New York to Los Angeles — s

"Each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide or its equivalent — your share of the emissions on a cross-country flight one-way from New York to Los Angeles — shrinks the summer sea ice cover by 3 square meters, or 32 square feet, the authors, Dirk Notz and Julienne Stroeve, found." Those picture-like analogies may be very effective, but I immediately call bullshit. I want to know a percentage. Let's say 100% of air travel was removed, how much CO2 is that in savings, percentage-wise? It's two percent[1]. If you just told people it was two percent, they would immediately proceed to not give a damn. Only the most dogmatic of people would be giving up a major freedom in their life just to save a theoretical two percent on CO2. [1] https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html

bpfrh 7y ago
That figure is misleading. In the uk the domnestic aviation accounts for 22% of the transportation sector. Airtravel is a luxtury and unfortunately in a crises that should be the first to go. At least domnestic flights should be banned immediately. Will it solve our Problem? No. Will it help solve our Problem? Yes, because it is one of the things we can get easily ride of. Nobody says you can't travel anymore, just take the train.
- gridlockd 7y ago
  Your 22% figure is misleading. It makes it sound significant, but it's not. In reality, anything that people in the UK can do regarding domestic CO2 is insignificant to world CO2 emissions. They could be 100% carbon neutral and it wouldn't make a dent. Instead of giving up on liberties and wasting money on tiny gains on CO2 savings, the UK should be using it towards developing technologies for the rest of the world to thrive on - without emitting so much CO2. That's not what people want to hear though. They want to feel significant. They want to feel good about themselves because they're eating vegan or riding a bike to work, even though that contribution is utterly negligible.

bpfrh 7y ago

That figure is misleading. In the uk the domnestic aviation accounts for 22% of the transportation sector. Airtravel is a luxtury and unfortunately in a crises that should be the first to go. At least domnestic flights should be banned immediately. Will it solve our Problem? No. Will it help solve our Problem? Yes, because it is one of the things we can get easily ride of. Nobody says you can't travel anymore, just take the train.

gridlockd 7y ago
Your 22% figure is misleading. It makes it sound significant, but it's not. In reality, anything that people in the UK can do regarding domestic CO2 is insignificant to world CO2 emissions. They could be 100% carbon neutral and it wouldn't make a dent. Instead of giving up on liberties and wasting money on tiny gains on CO2 savings, the UK should be using it towards developing technologies for the rest of the world to thrive on - without emitting so much CO2. That's not what people want to hear though. They want to feel significant. They want to feel good about themselves because they're eating vegan or riding a bike to work, even though that contribution is utterly negligible.