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Contradicting reference that was posted elesewhere in the thread: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-takin

• gruez 6y ago
  I don't see how that's contradicting. The parent comment was talking about carbon emissions per mile traveled between various forms of transport, your article talks about total carbon emissions. It's possible that long distance travel emit tons of carbon regardless of method, and flights are the least bad.
• CydeWeys 6y ago
  Not a contradiction. Driving a car on a long road trip also produces more CO2 than many people do in a year in some countries. You're not considering how low the standard of living we're talking about here is. These are people who don't have electrical service at home.
• aero-glide 6y ago
  I don't see how its contradicting. >flying from London to New York and back generates about 986kg of CO2 per passenger. This is around 5.8% of annual average co2 emission per Australian. So if you take this flight to no-where and reduce your other consumption by around 6%, you are no more guilty than any other Australian.