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- lorisg 2y agoHave you heard about « Climate change »?
- woah 2y agoHow much does this cost???
- photonthug 2y agoYou’d be surprised. Flights are expensive but spending time in lower COL places offsets it. The trick is to keep going to the next place you haven’t been yet, usually a short hop, instead of going back the way you came
- oez 2y agoWorking for a PE firm probably helps a lot
- roywiggins 2y agoBack of the envelope, 104 flights is like ~100 metric tons of carbon per year on flights alone (guesstimated four-hour flights on average), which is equivalent to about six and a half times the average American's entire yearly carbon footprint. I know it's fashionable to say that "personal carbon footprints" are a myth created by Big Oil, but at a certain point you're CO2 Georg[0]. 104 flights a year is not more than what some people probably do for business, so I'm not calling her the World's Greatest Monster, but still: it's an impressive number for someone who doesn't charter business jets or own a yacht. You could probably ride trains around Europe indefinitely like this guy and have a lower carbon footprint than most Americans: https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/07/experience-i-live-on-trains https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/07/exp... edit: She says she's flown 16 days and 18 hours by plane[1] last year. That's almost exactly 400 hours, ~100 metric tons if the figure of 250kg/hour Google threw out is correct. She works in crypto though, 100 tons is about 250 bitcoin transactions. Another reference point, spending 12 months on a cruise ship instead would emit about 150 tons of CO2. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg [1] https://twitter.com/sophfuji/status/1740770070111068539 https://twitter.com/sophfuji/status/1740770070111068539
- bowmessage 2y agoAh, yes, best to just stay home forever, then.
- roywiggins 2y agoI think you missed my point about trains. Lasse Stolley has travelled >650,000 km by train in two years. A quick Google suggests it's about 35 grams per person per km, which is... 11 metric tons per year. Okay, not perfect, but he's literally living on the train, and so that probably accounts for nearly his entire carbon footprint, which puts him below an average American's CO2 footprint. If he "only" traveled between cities weekly it would be less.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- readthenotes1 2y agoOne quote the author left off: Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. -George Orwell. It is not quite that extreme, but having traveled with and without others I perceive that it is closer to the truth than not.
- metadat 2y agoOne con they neglected: Flying so frequently is unsustainable from a CO2 emissions perspective.
- Centigonal 2y ago> I think that 2021 is pretty normal in terms of flying once every 9.4 days for an average person Tell me you grew up ultra-rich without telling me you grew up ultra-rich.