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> flying around in private jets is horrible for the environment It would be more horrible for the environment (in total effect) if people could afford to do it
by card_zero 2y ago
> flying around in private jets is horrible for the environment
It would be more horrible for the environment (in total effect) if people could afford to do it to any significant extent. Instead, like many other activities, its total effect is trivial, but the idea of such carelessness is offensive.
- MrMcCall 2y agoIts total effect is far from trivial. Our atmosphere is six miles thick, with only 2-to-3 miles or so of breathable air. And I don't call anything "offensive", because I cannot be offended by what anyone does to me or anyone else. That said, what they or anyone is doing has a moral weight to it, being, to some degree, either selfish or compassionate. That is the measure of every human activity, our every choice.
- card_zero 2y agoI mean, it's generally offensive, not necessarily to you or me, just to people. And I suppose we have to bear the relatively recently discovered warming effect of contrails, but in terms of carbon emissions, ourworldindata assigns aviation as a whole only a very thin slice of the emissions pie. But you're apparently talking about, what, PAHs that might give somebody cancer? Not a big deal proportionately, I think, unless you work at an airport.