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A comment on Ask HN: Where is a good place for a college student to vacation?.

Re:Ask HN: Where is a good place for a college student to va... by xrange on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:08PM (#12922135)
If we are serious about climate change, shouldn't we be thinking long and hard about flying anywhere for a vacation? Maybe take a ferry/cruise to the Bahamas or some other Caribbean island?

https://www.frs-caribbean.com/ferry-routes

Or drive to Mexico or another Central American country?

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Re:Ask HN: Where is a good place for a college student to va... by shoo on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:04AM (#12931845)
Taking one long international return flight per year accounts for about 15% of an estimated UK person's annual energy usage: [1][2] . So that's indeed a pretty big impact to the environment.

If we're serious about climate change we need to regulate the economy so that the price of externalities from CO2 emissions is priced into those activities that generate CO2 pollution.

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml [2] https://www.withouthotair.com/c5/page_35.shtml

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