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Protesting Chase doesn’t stop investments. It just pushes them elsewhere. Those activists are morons and stopping their flights would do far more to help than t

Protesting Chase doesn’t stop investments. It just pushes them elsewhere. Those activists are morons and stopping their flights would do far more to help than to protest a single bank. If they were protesting the government to massively increase oil taxes then you might have a point. Alas, they don’t have any economic intuition.

dylan604 3y ago
If those protestors did not have tickets on those flights, somebody else would be able to purchase them. It's not like the plane isn't going to fly that route because of this. So whether the protesters fly or somebody else, the plane is still make the emissions you're concerned about.
- kortilla 3y ago
  “If I don’t rob this bank, someone else will!”
- deadlyllama 3y ago
  If enough people didn't buy tickets, then the airlines would have to reduce capacity on the routes, and that would reduce emissions.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    what's more likely, people stop traveling by plane, or these seats will remain filled? I'm all for making changes, but let's make them realistic ones with actual chances of getting implemented. the world is a big place, and air travel is not going to be replaced by steamships. we've been there, done that, and tired of the slowness. progress, not regression. improve the engines for air travel. don't expect air travel to stop
ForHackernews 3y ago
They're not protesting Chase, they're protesting fuel investments. If government did its job, this wouldn't even be needed. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/11/climate-change-policies-contradictions/675967/?gift=HLOKkW3uo7UNe883ugE5GODKq4MO0YMPvOzD-YjPP7o&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/11/climate-... > The international agency’s analysis, in contrast, assumes countries will follow through with more climate-friendly policies and renew the ones they already have on the books. “Look how different things could be,” Bowman said. The difference is night and day, despair and hope. > Policy, and only policy, appears to make that difference. It represents the choices that our leaders make about when to finally change course. Naughten, the Antarctic-ice scientist, reminded me that “climate is a spectrum; it isn’t an on/off switch.” Whenever we do make a different set of decisions, ones that make the math properly compute, we will be saving what we have left, preventing some layer of livability from being irrecoverably sloughed off and swept away.

dylan604 3y ago

If those protestors did not have tickets on those flights, somebody else would be able to purchase them. It's not like the plane isn't going to fly that route because of this. So whether the protesters fly or somebody else, the plane is still make the emissions you're concerned about.

kortilla 3y ago
“If I don’t rob this bank, someone else will!”
deadlyllama 3y ago
If enough people didn't buy tickets, then the airlines would have to reduce capacity on the routes, and that would reduce emissions.
- dylan604 3y ago
  what's more likely, people stop traveling by plane, or these seats will remain filled? I'm all for making changes, but let's make them realistic ones with actual chances of getting implemented. the world is a big place, and air travel is not going to be replaced by steamships. we've been there, done that, and tired of the slowness. progress, not regression. improve the engines for air travel. don't expect air travel to stop

ForHackernews 3y ago

They're not protesting Chase, they're protesting fuel investments. If government did its job, this wouldn't even be needed. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/11/climate-change-policies-contradictions/675967/?gift=HLOKkW3uo7UNe883ugE5GODKq4MO0YMPvOzD-YjPP7o&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/11/climate-... > The international agency’s analysis, in contrast, assumes countries will follow through with more climate-friendly policies and renew the ones they already have on the books. “Look how different things could be,” Bowman said. The difference is night and day, despair and hope. > Policy, and only policy, appears to make that difference. It represents the choices that our leaders make about when to finally change course. Naughten, the Antarctic-ice scientist, reminded me that “climate is a spectrum; it isn’t an on/off switch.” Whenever we do make a different set of decisions, ones that make the math properly compute, we will be saving what we have left, preventing some layer of livability from being irrecoverably sloughed off and swept away.