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Yeah, this reads very much as the same kind of moral panic we recently endured over plastic straws. Air travel does emit a ton of carbon per person, but on the
by weeksie 7y ago
Yeah, this reads very much as the same kind of moral panic we recently endured over plastic straws. Air travel does emit a ton of carbon per person, but on the whole we're better off putting effort into making renewables cheaper and greening up the agriculture industry. Not that we shouldn't put pressure on the airlines to put R&D into lowering emissions but pretending this is something people can fix by "flying a little less" is silly at best, and smacks more of religion than of reasoned responses to climate change.
- rubinelli 7y agoThere's nothing wrong in picking the low-hanging fruit. Pick enough of these, and you start seeing a difference with minimal cost.
- weeksie 7y agoPrecisely why you go for the largest polluters, like agriculture and ground transport. Air travel is the opposite of low hanging fruit because it's difficult to make jets more fuel efficient—the air travel industry is already incentivized to do this to cut costs, so most of the low hanging fruit has been picked. You end up striving for incremental improvement on 2.5% of the problem.