Got sick of air travel after the security bullsh1t started kicking in. Nudie scanners, liquids prohibitions and you had Ryanair changing their terms and conditions every few months to catch out infrequent flyers.
One day I decided to fly anyway, packed a few pheasants I shot into my suitcase and tried to check them in. But I was called back, suit case opened and they told me I couldn't check them in. They had no issue with me taking them with me but they were carrion
This article heading could read "1% of People Cause Most of Global Emissions for { insert expensive activity here }". Is it any surprise that flying, which may seem common in developed countries but isn't that common globally, is mostly done by wealthy individuals? It looks like global emissions are at about 50 billion tonnes annually, so airline emissions are 2% of the global total.
So the flying habits of 1% of the world's population are adding 1% to global Co2 equivalent emissions. I guess that doesn't ha
Global Carbon Emissions Breakdown: -Manufacturing & Construction: 24.3% -Transport (Road): 12.1% -Agriculture: 11.9% -Residential: 11%...... Transport (Aviation): 1.1% We should focus most of our effort on reducing emissions in those top four sectors. A 2% reduction in emissions in the combination of those four more than equals all of aviation's emissions. Not saying we shouldn't de-carbonize aviation, but it is around 10th priority.
These researchers certainly appear to be twisting the definition of a "subsidy" beyond rationality:
If you take into consideration that it cost money to remove pollution from the air, you suddenly find that these absolutely are subsidies. They are incurring environmental debt that others will have to pay.
in order to push an anti-capitalist class-warfare perspective:
Quite the opposite. If everyone where charged money for all the pollution they create, the rich are being the most subsidized by the rest of the planet. This is literally the largest case of a tragedy of the commons.
One day I decided to fly anyway, packed a few pheasants I shot into my suitcase and tried to check them in. But I was called back, suit case opened and they told me I couldn't check them in. They had no issue with me taking them with me but they were carrion
I never thought airlines should have been bailed out. Let them go.
This article heading could read "1% of People Cause Most of Global Emissions for { insert expensive activity here }". Is it any surprise that flying, which may seem common in developed countries but isn't that common globally, is mostly done by wealthy individuals? It looks like global emissions are at about 50 billion tonnes annually, so airline emissions are 2% of the global total.
So the flying habits of 1% of the world's population are adding 1% to global Co2 equivalent emissions. I guess that doesn't ha
-Manufacturing & Construction: 24.3%
-Transport (Road): 12.1%
-Agriculture: 11.9%
-Residential: 11%
Transport (Aviation): 1.1%
We should focus most of our effort on reducing emissions in those top four sectors. A 2% reduction in emissions in the combination of those four more than equals all of aviation's emissions. Not saying we shouldn't de-carbonize aviation, but it is around 10th priority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#/media/File:Global_GHG_Emissio
These researchers certainly appear to be twisting the definition of a "subsidy" beyond rationality:
If you take into consideration that it cost money to remove pollution from the air, you suddenly find that these absolutely are subsidies. They are incurring environmental debt that others will have to pay.
in order to push an anti-capitalist class-warfare perspective:
Quite the opposite. If everyone where charged money for all the pollution they create, the rich are being the most subsidized by the rest of the planet. This is literally the largest case of a tragedy of the commons.