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It got a magnitude more expensive since covid. Private jets are the problem, not Kate from the UK flying to Tenerife once a year via ryan air.
by RamblingCTO 2y ago
It got a magnitude more expensive since covid. Private jets are the problem, not Kate from the UK flying to Tenerife once a year via ryan air.
- Eumenes 2y agoYou think private jet flights outnumber commercial ones?
- RamblingCTO 2y agoThat's not the argument? The per person CO2 is way higher. Do I really have to explain basic things like that?
- aziaziazi 2y agoA magnitude is very exaggerated. Also consider Covid won’t change the obvious trend since the 50’s: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/32068/average-price-of-air-travel-vs-available-seat-capacity/ https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/32068/average-price-of-ai... Regarding jets vs mass transport, I think it is misleading to oppose them. Remove all the jets on the planet and we’ll have exactly the same sustainability trouble. My old dad points the fault of rich people taking jets to go everywhere, and also the fault of "billion of Chineses starting to take more and more flight". His bi-monthly usage of plane for Holliday isn't worth considering through because he "has no choice, people have right to takes Holliday and we-the-world-middle-class are not the problem"
- RamblingCTO 2y agoI'm not arguing that. I was arguing against "RyanAir is the problem". When jets are contributing way more to climate change than mass transport, why argue against the most efficient of all air transport and not the biggest CO2 producers? Doesn't make any sense to me.
- aziaziazi 2y agoI agree with you on a philosophical view to maximise equality while minimizing climate change, which is very noble. I still think Kate’s RyanAir is a very important problem to address in parallel than worse problem like jets.