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don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe They used to. When I was growing up, way before budget airlines, buses used to be the way you traveled a
by dagw 2y ago
don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe
They used to. When I was growing up, way before budget airlines, buses used to be the way you traveled around Europe for cheap.
- acdha 2y agoDefinitely - and it’s nowhere near the carbon emissions so I think what happened is that they saw someone else’s data (hopefully inadvertently) comparing a mostly full long haul flight (148gm CO2/passenger/kilometer) to a city bus (97g) rather than the long-distance buses you mentioned which are far more efficient since they don’t stop frequently (27g). https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint