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even thou aviation is responsible for just 2%-4% of climate change?

• bluescrn 4y ago
  This 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?