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I agree that current levels of flying are likely excessive and unsustainable. But I think it's important to ask the right questions and not just cry out 'shut i
by phonebucket 6y ago
I agree that current levels of flying are likely excessive and unsustainable. But I think it's important to ask the right questions and not just cry out 'shut it down'.
> Air travel is ecologically unsustainable.
Too much air travel is ecologically unsustainable. But then again, that's more or less a tautology.
What is interesting it to work out how much air travel is sustainable.
> This archaic sector and transition that part of the economy to something more future sustainable.
Sounds good to me. What is that something?
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoHyperloop? All-electric high-speed rail? Minimum standards for aircraft emissions? CO2 tax on airline tickets - possibly a cap-and-trade system where every person in a country get N-many carbon credits they can trade in a free market to people that want to fly more-often? A problem any of this introduces is that (modern) airline travel still has comparable CO2-per-passenger-mile values compared to driving by car[1], so it’s not fair to say that flying is worst (nor the best) way to travel,]. I understand that, I’m general, we should still prefer people fly to Disney World in the summer than drive - or take a cruise ship - as shipping has the worst emissions-per-passenger-mile due to heavy use of “bunker fuel”. [1]According to Wikipedia’s page on aircraft economy. Ctrl+F for “comparison to ground transport”.