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> It’s a distraction to ask people to change when we don’t force industry to change. It's not. Having folks like Bernie Sanders or AOC telling us that we're al
by tharne 4y ago
> It’s a distraction to ask people to change when we don’t force industry to change.
It's not. Having folks like Bernie Sanders or AOC telling us that we're all going to die unless we drastically cut our emissions is not very convincing when they themselves are gleefully hoping on a commercial jet 2 or more times a week. It's hard for people to take something seriously when the very people sounding the alarm aren't willing to make even the most basic sacrifices.
So you're correct that we can't meaningfully reduce emissions unless we force industry to change, but we're also not going to have much success advocating for those kinds of laws unless people are the top are willing to show a basic level of moral courage and leadership.
- atonse 4y agoYou’re right that for a large swath of private jet owners, their use of the private jet vastly outweighs the benefits of what they do with that jet. (Like an extreme example of an exception being someone like Al Gore)