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My understanding is that research suggests airplane emissions make a disproportionate contribution to the climate crisis because they are released at high altit
by ForHackernews 7y ago
My understanding is that research suggests airplane emissions make a disproportionate contribution to the climate crisis because they are released at high altitude, but I'm not an expert.
Also, it seems intuitively obvious that moving N kg by plane is vastly less efficient than other forms of transport like rail or ocean shipping. We should be doing fewer energy-inefficient things and more efficient things.
- makerofspoons 7y agoAlso, only the world's richest (who have by far the largest carbon footprints) fly today. The comparatively small sliver of emissions it is today will balloon as the world gets richer.
- t0mas88 7y agoRail is more environmentally friendly than air, but it lacks capacity and it's not very fast. Ocean is much worse for the environment than air, because emissions from shipping aren't regulated and they burn the worst of the worst while happily dumping waste overboard once in international waters. At least air has global rules on clean operation set by IATA since a few years.