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I'd be curious to see how this compares to cutting or reducing emissions from other sources, like private jets or burning coal. At a glance, without knowing mu

I'd be curious to see how this compares to cutting or reducing emissions from other sources, like private jets or burning coal. At a glance, without knowing much about greenhouse emissions, this seems like an extremely high effort low impact measure. Surely there must be lower hanging fruits?

eesmith 4y ago
> like private jets When that comes up, people make comments like "The problem with banning private jets for reasons of climate change: it is nothing but symbolism." and "Good intention but in my opinion this is a non-starter." and "This seems like the worst kind of envy politics.", to quote three of many HN comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342021 from 16 days ago.