Re:Four Hundred Private Jets Attended the COP27 Climate Conf...
by AnimalMuppet on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:17PM
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This right here? This is why people don't take climate change seriously - because those who claim that they do take it seriously so clearly actually don't.
Re:Four Hundred Private Jets Attended the COP27 Climate Conf...
by Cryptonic on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:00PM
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How cares? As long as these elites and politicians attended it's a good thing. It would be laughtable if they all travel there with a bicycle just to make a point or to gain authority. The "only Jesus can tell me about climate" attitude sucks and is stupid.
I have a car, I buy clothes, I have a warm house in the winter, I travel on streets and so on. Even my morning toast is responsible for CO2 emissions. Still I want a future for my children and we need to decarbonize transport, heavy industry, the agrar sector, energy production, cooling and warming and so on.
Re:Four Hundred Private Jets Attended the COP27 Climate Conf...
by asadotzler on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:51PM
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The airline industry, you and me flying, 80% of it purely for leisure, will release something like 700 million metric tons of CO2 this year (and typically over 900 million metric tons per year pre-pandemic.)
The private jets flying to this conference will release maybe 10,000-20,000 metric tons of CO2.
That's 0.000016% of the annual CO2 from air travel.
Some of the most consequential travel for curbing climate change, literally a drop in the ocean compared to what you and I cause with our freaking vacation flights, and you all turn to insults and claims of hypocrisy.
What a joke this board is becoming. Hackers that can't or won't do simple arithmetic.
If politicians are gonna be lobbied by climate polluters why do they expect people to take climate change seriously.
I have a car, I buy clothes, I have a warm house in the winter, I travel on streets and so on. Even my morning toast is responsible for CO2 emissions. Still I want a future for my children and we need to decarbonize transport, heavy industry, the agrar sector, energy production, cooling and warming and so on.
The private jets flying to this conference will release maybe 10,000-20,000 metric tons of CO2.
That's 0.000016% of the annual CO2 from air travel.
Some of the most consequential travel for curbing climate change, literally a drop in the ocean compared to what you and I cause with our freaking vacation flights, and you all turn to insults and claims of hypocrisy.
What a joke this board is becoming. Hackers that can't or won't do simple arithmetic.
If you are really gonna do the arithmetic please do 1 vs 1. So, 1 politician/elites private usage vs 1 average citizen carbon emission.