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Maybe name them after the private jets used by the ruling class to fly to climate conferences?
by bluescrn 4y ago
Maybe name them after the private jets used by the ruling class to fly to climate conferences?
- pionar 4y agoMaybe not buy the cynical take when it contributes an iota of CO2 emissions?
- Aeolun 4y agoIn total, but is that still true when you adjust it for passenger miles traveled?
- bjourne 4y agoRoman Abramovich alone emits as much CO2 as over 5,000 Chinese people. https://luxurylaunches.com/celebrities/roman-abramovich-carbon-footprint.php https://luxurylaunches.com/celebrities/roman-abramovich-carb...
- leereeves 4y agoAnyone's actions, individually, contribute less than an iota of CO2 emissions. Does that give each of us license to do anything we want?
- kmlx 4y agoeven thou aviation is responsible for just 2%-4% of climate change?
- bluescrn 4y agoThis is why climate change is impossible to deal with - everything contributes 'just a tiny fraction' when broken down by industry and by country. Private jets may be a miniscule percentage of the total, but they're one of the most glaringly wasteful, and they're also setting a very bad example for the rest of us. Why should hundreds of millions of working class people accept that they're going to have to lose their cars (and therefore their jobs), their meat, and their ability to heat/cool their small homes while our leaders still use private jets even when travelling to discuss climate change policy? We need proposed solutions to climate change that don't look like a giant boot stomping on the face of the poor forever. The vast majority will never be able to afford Teslas or other neat-but-very-expensive green tech.
- melling 4y ago“everything contributes 'just a tiny fraction' when broken down by industry and by country.” Well, we can determine globally that heating and electricity generation are responsible for 25% of greenhouse emissions. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss... Out of curiosity, how is 40% of global electricity generated? Out of curiosity, what’s the worst possible fossil fuel one could use?
- Aeolun 4y ago“The Left Hand of Darkness” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue though.
- masklinn 4y agoOr the name of oil company C-suits.
- troyvit 4y agoSo if somebody blows oh I dunno 6 tons of carbon flying to a climate conference, but they make deals at that conference that save 60 tons of carbon, are they an a-hole?
- riversflow 4y agoYes, they could have trivially flown on a commercial passenger jet instead of a private one.
- sparkbII 4y ago
- bluescrn 4y agoEven if they save 60 million tons of carbon, they're sure to do it by making people less well-off than themselves even poorer - while flaunting the fact that the wealthy don't need to make any lifestyle changes to 'save the planet', it's another burden that'll be passed on to 'the poors'.
- Pakdef 4y agoMaybe after the cargo ships coming from China...