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I think in the US at least, travel has an even deeper aspect of ritualized behavior or religiosity in the positive sense of those concepts. A pilgrimage for peo
by literalis 3y ago
I think in the US at least, travel has an even deeper aspect of ritualized behavior or religiosity in the positive sense of those concepts. A pilgrimage for people who don't believe in anything.
Even someone who takes a 20 hour flight to take photos for Instagram is having a unique life experience. They are going to have experiences worth telling stories about. Certainly more than the person who doesn't leave the house.
- brtkdotse 3y ago[flagged]
- xboxnolifes 3y agoSure there is. Do it once every 3 years. Simple math.
- brtkdotse 3y agoA sustainable level of CO2 emissions per person is 2.3 tonnes per year. This includes food, housing, clothing and transportation. A 20 hour flight produces ~3 tonnes of CO2. This is ON TOP of the CO2 used up for living.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoYou haven't given the number of how much CO2 people use to live, only what the sustainable number is, so there isn't enough information to make any conclusion.
- brtkdotse 3y agoThe current average in the US is ~16 tonnes per year, so around.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoSounds like that number just takes the CO2 that the us produces and divides by population. It would be agreeable if the wealth that came from that CO2 production did also was similarly distributed, but since it's not, that's not really how much your every day joe produces to live. It's what is produced to put another billion dollars onto a company's books.
- brtkdotse 3y agoStill, it’s produced and it’s produced because there’s demand. But yes, I agree, the vast majority of CO2 is produced by corporations who don’t pay for the externalities they create.
- mozman 3y agoI quite enjoy traveling and fly about 50,000 miles per year. I take offense to your sentiment. I have as much right to travel as anyone else. We need to live and let live.