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Why are you wasting Earths resources by flying? And for a 10 day vacation at that.

• melling 5y ago
  Do people still think the solution is for everyone to reduce their individual carbon emissions? “If we all just conserve enough…” Flying, for example, emits 2% of global emissions. That’s 100,000 flights a day, every day. We’ve just spent over 2 decades generating at least 40% of our electricity with coal. The carbon footprint of that was incredible. While we’ve been waiting for solar and wind to replace it…
  • plater 5y ago
    But for people who do fly, flying represents 50% or more of their footprint.
    • melling 5y ago
      Try thinking about solving the big problem rather than 7 billion little problems. You are worrying about subtracting 0.000000000001 from the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Telling people not to fly isn’t a solution [update] Anyway, I see my comment isn’t understood again. Enjoy another decade of incredible emissions. I’m sure sooner or later people will finally get it. Those windmills are still coming!!!
      • meragrin_ 5y ago
        What is the solution for the big problem?
  • sveme 5y ago
    Everything has to happen simultaneously. Carbon emission reduction on a personal, community, city, state, country, supranational entity, global level. We simply cannot continue to wait for other, more emission-intensive actors, to act first.
    • melling 5y ago
      Yes, 25 years after the Kyoto protocol a lot more impossible things need to happen “at once” https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-year/ https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
      • pope_meat 5y ago
        The house is on fire and the owners are debating the cost of water to put it out. I think we're doomed, mostly because too many people want to believe we can fix this without losing quality of life, and won't accept anything less than that. Oh well.
  • AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
    > Do people still think the solution is for everyone to reduce their individual carbon emissions? It couldn't hurt. If people put more effort into reducing their carbon footprint and being mindful of the carbon externalities of their lifestyle they'd also probably vote for people and pay money to companies who seek to reduce the carbon footprint of industry and government too. We have to care before anything will get done.
  • ArnoVW 5y ago
    I don't know anyone that thinks that reducing is the solution. But, as our technology is, for now, it is part of the solution. The hierarchy of the three R's is 1) reduce 2) re-use 3) recycle. That's for a reason. No need to manage consumption that never took place. Like the agile mantra, maximise the work not done. There are several reasons why people focus on flying: - 2% globally, but distributed very unequally over population - much of flying can be prevented, most of it is elected (you can video conf that meeting or go on holiday locally, you can't not heat your house) - flights are trending up, when we should be trending down (and are managing in other areas)