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If I take the train, which is the most green transport (CO2 neutral) from one edge of europe to the other (e.g. Berlin to Sicily), the amount I pay is 500 euro
by j-pb 7y ago
If I take the train, which is the most green transport (CO2 neutral) from one edge of europe to the other (e.g. Berlin to Sicily), the amount I pay is 500 euros and it takes me 35 hours.
If I fly the same distance it takes me 3 hours, and I pay 100 euros.
Heres the kicker, it costs me 100 euro to buy CO2 compensation and make the flight CO2 neutral, and whenever me and my spouse fly we always pay twice that so that we are actually carbon negative.
So everytime we fly we reduce the earths CO2 by one flight and still have 200 euros more in our bank account.
- egdod 7y agoWhere do you buy your carbon offsets? What actually happens to the money that you spend on them?
- gjasny 7y agoFor example at atmosfair: https://www.atmosfair.de/en/ https://www.atmosfair.de/en/ Their website lists some CO2 compensation projects.
- frakkingcylons 7y agoI've used COTAP in the past: https://cotap.org/ https://cotap.org/
- alex_young 7y agoThat sounds great, but how do you manage to offset 2 flights? I don't really understand how money can undo putting a bunch of carbon in the atmosphere.
- Robotbeat 7y agoYou're paying for pulling the carbon back out. The cheapest way to do this is to pay someone to plant trees for you.
- henryfjordan 7y agoYou've only succeeded if that tree eventually gets sucked into the earth and turned back into oil eventually. If it gets cut down for fuel you've done nothing.
- Robotbeat 7y agoThe tree merely existing helps, although imperfect. There’s only so much room to plant trees, though. It’s effectively a limited carbon sink.