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> We want people who don’t think about airplanes as a mode of transportation to start flying Oh yeah that's just what we needed. I love flying but rarely do it
by Aachen 2y ago
> We want people who don’t think about airplanes as a mode of transportation to start flying
Oh yeah that's just what we needed. I love flying but rarely do it because it's not like airplane transport is underused compared to our available resources to run this system. It's not sustainable to keep using the limited amount of atmosphere as a dumping ground for combustion products so the big task ahead of us is finding workable alternatives as well as installing facilities (there are several options today) that remove the extraneous greenhouse gasses and other emissions within a reasonable amount of time. We can make transportation sustainable but there's a long way to go yet
In the meantime, I don't see that flying being too underutilised is a problem any one of us benefits from solving, even if that requires thinking beyond the immediate "I get somewhere faster" and "it is fun and beautiful in the sky" benefits which I fully recognise