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When leisure travelers don't fly, they drive. Having clean, efficient ground transportation is required to reap the benefit of reducing air travel. (If you cut
by closeparen 7y ago
When leisure travelers don't fly, they drive. Having clean, efficient ground transportation is required to reap the benefit of reducing air travel. (If you cut off all avenues to seeing Grandma at Christmas besides FaceTime, you'll get voted out of office).
- journalctl 7y agoLet’s solve both of these problems then, which it seems like people are doing. Plus, we already know how to solve ground transport, we just refuse to actually do it (renewables, public transit, dense development, etc). Air travel is more challenging given the massive amount of energy required.
- closeparen 7y agoPublic transit and dense development can reduce the necessity of renting a car or hiring a cab when you arrive in another city, but that's not where the energy goes in long distance travel. Without high speed rail, reducing air travel just puts more cars on the interstates.