• @miseducator
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    324 months ago

    First, they removed the giant swooshes from the tails.

  • @[email protected]
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    -414 months ago

    Private planes suck, but it’s plastic straws levels compared to other important changes.

    • @glimse
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      614 months ago

      One private flight is about the same amount of carbon as the average person produces in a year. That’s quite a bit more significant than straws.

      As for the “important changes” part - don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We unfortunately still rely on the major polluters so it’s harder to dismantle…but private jets? Those only help the 1% and the 1% has enough already

      • @SendMePhotos
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        44 months ago

        Airplane transportation contributes about 2% of global carbon emissions annually.

        • @Buffalox
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          Everything is just a fraction of the total.
          Private jets are an insane amount of unnecessary pollution by a very few people.

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            In 2022, most of the world’s fossil fuel carbon emissions came from coal (40 per cent), oil (32 per cent), natural gas (21 per cent)

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            No, there are a few very big things we can tackle literally this very second if we just had the global effort.

            • @Buffalox
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              134 months ago

              Apples and oranges very much?
              A private jet is a USE of energy.
              Coal is a SOURCE of energy.

            • @SendMePhotos
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              24 months ago

              Why do we use coal? I’m uninformed or ignorant.

        • @glimse
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          14 months ago

          Any reason you chose to provide that statistic but not one about the environmental impact straws?

      • @[email protected]
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        -54 months ago

        Yeah look that’s a fair take.

        But we’re also talking about the emissions of a small cities worth of people. Not great to have, but also not the battle to get bogged down on.

        • @glimse
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          64 months ago

          But it’s an easy one to do something about so there’s not much bogging down happening. I’d rather a small change now than a “promised” change in 20 years