Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by esotericn on Thursday August 15, 2019 @07:54PM (#20710861)

Yeah. The major problem I think comes about with stuff like Ryanair flights for ten quid where the carbon tax might well whack up the cost by orders of magnitude.

I think it's incorrect to categorise limiting flying as 'economy busting' in any sense to be frank - what percentage of flights are things like people visiting relatives?

It might be a bit of a shame, but economy busting is surely hyperbolic, it's primarily a leisure activity.

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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by fyfy18 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:29AM (#20722054)

> Ryanair flights for ten quid where the carbon tax might well whack up the cost by orders of magnitude.

It would be nowhere near that amount. I used a flight estimator which says a return flight from London to Malaga would emit 0.3 tonnes of CO2.

Project Wren charges $10 - $20 per tonne, so it would cost the same as the ticket at most, even including the cut Ryanair inevitably would take. If you take a more normal ticket price, it would be an insignificant extra.

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