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Too much time thinking about how to prevent a 250g bottle from flying and not enough time thinking about how to prevent the 85000g accompanying said bottle from
by morsch 4y ago
Too much time thinking about how to prevent a 250g bottle from flying and not enough time thinking about how to prevent the 85000g accompanying said bottle from flying. Maybe a large airport like SFO should be doing 25k aircraft movements a year instead of 250k, since we're in a climate crisis, and should not support burning anything. I guess flying is the last resort.
The environmental impact of resource extraction and refinement includes its CO2 output, by the way, not just the effects it has on the immediate surroundings which you efficiently hand-waved away. And maybe LA doesn't have as good handle on things as you think[1].
[1] https://theconversation.com/los-angeles-long-troubled-history-with-urban-oil-drilling-is-nearing-an-end-after-years-of-health-concerns-175983 https://theconversation.com/los-angeles-long-troubled-histor...
- conradev 4y agoToo much time according to whom? There are plenty of people that exist and some number number of them are working on aviation biofuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_biofuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_biofuel We are allowed to and often have to attack problems of efficiency from both sides – in scaling up zero carbon solutions and minimizing waste in existing solutions. But note that I said "minimizing waste". It is extremely hard to get people on board with demand destruction. The fed is having a hard time raising interest rates even though it is good for the long term. Getting people to fly less isn't as simple as telling them "no" – they'll just elect someone who will say "yes" or fly more (yes, that is a thing). _You need to provide meaningful alternatives_. Like, for example, building a train. But we've proven to be pretty bad at that, so then we go look at biofuels.
- RC_ITR 4y agoAgain, these are incremental problems. You can and should do both. But yours involves changing society at a fundamental level (who decides the people who can no longer see their relatives at Christmas?) and mine involves reversing a recent law.
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- RC_ITR 4y ago>People living near Los Angeles oil wells have less lung strength and capacity than average for the region, on par with living near a freeway, researchers found Hmmm, no potential confounding factors there...