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Back 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
by roywiggins 2y ago
Back 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]