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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts)
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 06:16 PM Aug 2019

How much does your flight actually hurt the planet?

from: Quartz

The advice seems simple: Flying has a huge climate cost compared to other individual actions, and if we care about our impact on the environment, we should limit how much we do it.

But the bigger question of how flying truly compares to other behaviors, and more broadly, how we can sensibly make life-changing decisions about our impact on the environment, is far from simple.

https://qz.com/1671617/how-much-does-your-flight-actually-hurt-the-planet/

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How much does your flight actually hurt the planet? (Original Post) lordsummerisle Aug 2019 OP
I donated to carbonfund.org last time I flew Ponietz Aug 2019 #1
How does donating help cut down the flying wasupaloopa Aug 2019 #2
It doesn't, but if I must fly, I contribute to carbon capture technologies and projects Ponietz Aug 2019 #3
That is just it. People must fly. wasupaloopa Aug 2019 #4
Without national standards, or a comprehensive international treaty Ponietz Aug 2019 #5
 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
2. How does donating help cut down the flying
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 06:31 PM
Aug 2019

carbon emissions?


The plane is still going to fly wether we are on it or not.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
4. That is just it. People must fly.
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 09:53 PM
Aug 2019

Saying things like don’t fly and don’t drive is not being realistic.

You need to work to reduce carbon yet fly and drive.

We are doing it in CA and we are ahead of schedule. I dare say we drive and drive and drive.

Ponietz

(3,000 posts)
5. Without national standards, or a comprehensive international treaty
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 12:25 AM
Aug 2019

we each must heed our own conscience.

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