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The arguments I read: 1. Air travel constitutes only 1.9% of greenhouse gas emissions 2. Air travel won't cease to exist so we might as well not try (or do mo
by jackconsidine 5y ago
The arguments I read:
1. Air travel constitutes only 1.9% of greenhouse gas emissions
2. Air travel won't cease to exist so we might as well not try (or do more of it?)
3. Author had serious reasons for air travel and "smug bloke" rubbed him the wrong way.
I don't agree with the substance of point 2. It can logically be applied to all sorts of things that we can all agree that we should try to limit.
On point 1, some commenters have noted that this figure may not be entirely accurate. But more importantly, a relatively small aggregate notwithstanding, skipping a flight is possibly the easiest way for an end-consumer to directly shrink their carbon contributions (source: Joro Carbon offset app [1])
[1] https://www.joro.app/ https://www.joro.app/