Re:How to Buy a Private Jet
by scepticalshrew on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:25PM
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Driving to your local grocery and flying private are orders (plural) of magnitude different in terms of carbon footprint. If your local grocery is 10km away, you'll save ~2.5kg of C02 if you cycle instead of drive[1]. If you fly for three hours, you'll save ~700kg of C02 if you choose to fly commercial instead of private[2]. I don't see how the _former_ is "way more extreme".
[1] https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/how-much-co2-does-cycli... [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/private...
Re:How to Buy a Private Jet
by throwaway09412 on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:32PM
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Many times a plane is the only mode of transportation. Eg flying over a body of water. Etc.
Re:How to Buy a Private Jet
by scepticalshrew on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:52PM
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Yes, nobody is disagreeing with that, and in rare cases only private will be possible, but other greener options are almost always available. The greenest one usually being: not flying at all.
If so, why didn’t you use a bicycle.
A car vs a bicycle seems to me to be way more extreme than an individual flying on a personal jet to a location a commercial jet can’t access (people forgot that there’s exists 10s of thousands of remote small airports private planes, not commercial, can fly too that might otherwise require an indivisible to fly commercial to the local major airport and then drive another few hours to get too)