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Humanity needs to stop flying all the time.

• mistrial9 2y ago
  humanity is not flying.. a very, very small subset of humanity.. and "largest carbon footprint has most prestige" is a very real phenomenon among that set. Four times in the last month I have read bragging stories mentioning very privelaged and therefore "elite" individuals described, including extreme private airplane use. Watch for the kneejerk response, too. Anti-"climate protest" media commonly uses the "flying hypocrisy" attack against those who are actively agitating against Fossil Fuels.. it works! Compare and contrast to "Climate Week New York City" this week and the passenger miles involved with that. Hint- there is no "truth" in the analysis.. it is reactive and exaggerated on all sides.
  • Aachen 2y ago
    On that topic, I was recently very surprised to learn that only 3% of Indians were ever on a flight in their life. With the country being so geographically large and so many Indian people in workplaces and conferences and everything (as in, it's just normal to me), it blew my mind to realise that most of these are actually all among the top richest fraction It's just crazy how well-off we are compared to so many people around the world in not just low- but also middle- income countries. We really could do well to take a small step back and get everyone onto some fair middle ground while we fix these emissions Edit: found the source: Polymatter's video "Why there are no flights between India and China" from earlier this month, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuWAdYl5icY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuWAdYl5icY at 16:32
• sickofparadox 2y ago
  "No vacations far away" or "No visiting distant family" are not winning rallying cries for climate change and will, in fact, doom any movement that tries to use them.
• swayvil 2y ago
  You'll have my unlimited consumption when you pry it from my cold dead hands.