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>maybe we should create viable alternatives to jet airline travel and encourage them to use them. What if alternatives are worse? Slower? More expensive? What
by Muromec 2y ago
>maybe we should create viable alternatives to jet airline travel and encourage them to use them.
What if alternatives are worse? Slower? More expensive? What if alternatives will only be available after we get a steady supply of biomass driven by clean fusion?
What if "encouraging" doesn't work?
Then what -- keep flying, pumping CO2 and sleepwalking into disaster we all know is happening?
- chipdart 2y ago> What if alternatives are worse? Slower? More expensive? You're talking as if air travel isn't the slowest and/or most expensive option in some cases. See for example high-speed rail for travel distances under 800km.
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- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> keep flying, pumping CO2 and sleepwalking into disaster we all know is happening? Focus on solveable problems. If you plot on the vertical axis amount of CO2 emitted and on horizontal public enthusiasm, flying is in the bottom right. It's a stupid thing to lobby against because for each unit of effort expended you're removing comparatively little CO2.
- lupusreal 2y ago> What if alternatives are worse? Slower? More expensive? Just like the sacrifices they expect the rest of us to make? They want me to give up my car for one with worse range or no car at all, while they still get to own cars and fly on jets because "there aren't many rich people, it's only logical that we are given a pass for everything we want you to stop doing."