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Nope, airline travel is 2-2.5% of all greenhouse emissions. All the coal we burn is at least 10 times that. If we stopped burning coal it would actually make a
by melling 3y ago
Nope, airline travel is 2-2.5% of all greenhouse emissions.
All the coal we burn is at least 10 times that. If we stopped burning coal it would actually make a difference. Air travel is a rounding error in comparison.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/coal-consumption-hit-an-all-time-high-in-2022-iea-says.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/coal-consumption-hit-an-all-...
- netsharc 3y agoHeh, so we do nothing because most things are just <5% of emissions? Can I have 2% of your bank account? It's just a rounding error right?
- melling 3y agoTo keep it simple, 10 years of burning coal is 100 years of aviation. 100 years of coal is 1000 years of aviation. And with your analogy, if I have 100,000 dollars and I give you $2000, I still have almost $100,000. If I give you $20,000, that’s going to make a dent. Repeat 4 more times and I’m broke. Any of that sinking in? It’s really important that people understand because they’re literally driving us into a climate disaster.
- polski-g 3y ago2% here, 1% there, 0.5% here, and before you know it--its a 10% reduction. There is no panacea to solving this issue.
- melling 3y agoMaybe it would help if we went with the bathtub filling up analogy and greenhouse gases. https://scied.ucar.edu/video/modeling-carbon-dioxide-bathtub https://scied.ucar.edu/video/modeling-carbon-dioxide-bathtub Would you try to empty the tub with a spoon or bucket?
- polski-g 3y agoWe don't have buckets, so we must use the spoons available for now.
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoIt’s 3% and growing quickly. Also that’s only the burning of kerosene, it excludes extraction and refining as well as all the support services air travel requires.
- dzhiurgis 3y agoAnd it will grow even more if other sources of emissions are reduced
- wkat4242 3y agoAlso, for power generation we have greener alternatives. For aviation we don't.