Suppose I’m being downvoted by the environmentalists. The grand parent poster highlighted how pragmatic solutions are more important than asking people to full

Suppose I’m being downvoted by the environmentalists. The grand parent poster highlighted how pragmatic solutions are more important than asking people to full stop degrade their quality of life. The parent post then argues a ‘pragmatic’ solution is taking the train to the alps while completely ignoring that a large percentage of people visiting that particular location likely does not have access solely by train. I believe trains for regional or even continental transportation are an excellent goal. However, the train as the key to solving transportation emissions completely misses the point that we are an intercontinental species at this point. Flying is the only practical method of moving people across the seas and likely will be for the foreseeable future. Solving emissions for flying vehicles seems a far more likely scenario than getting the world, and the people spread all over it, to stop flying. Trains can only solve a portion of the equation.