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Re:What if everyone had an air-mile allowance? by 0xfaded on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:18AM (#24186925)
Yet the wealthy are disproportionately represented in that 2.4%. You can literally look at it as a business class seat taking 3x the footprint of a cattle class seat.

According to https://phys.org/news/2019-02-income-attitudes-affect-greenh..., transport related GHG emissions are most strongly correlated to income. So it's convenient to sweep air travel under the rug as a small contributor, when the "rich" are the biggest offenders.

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Re:What if everyone had an air-mile allowance? by SamReidHughes on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:28AM (#24186999)
Exactly, the journalist is bitter that rich people can afford to fly airplanes.

You can tell because it's a "data journalist" who forgot to mention she's writing about 2.4% of emissions.

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