There is too much flying
➡️ The use of private jets causes 10 times the greenhouse emissions of a commercial flight and 50 times the greenhouse emissions of a train journey
Ban domestic flights private jets #banprivatejets #KeroseneTax
Hier, les Scientifiques en Rébellion ont participé à un rassemblement populaire devant le Tribunal de Grasse en soutien aux 3 militant·es ANV-COP21, Attac, et XR jugé·es pour avoir interrompu la circulation des jets privés à Cannes lors du dernier Festival.
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päivän puheenaihe ja itselle suunnattoman ilostuksen aihe on kyl se koneen säätiön apuraha!
näen sen julkisena tunnustuksena sille, että elokapinan työ on ollut merkittävää, hyvää, hyväksyttyä ja välttämätöntä, ja että sen halutaan jatkuvan.
ett kansalaistottelematon ilmastomielenosoittaminen, hakkuiden pysäytykset, tieblokit, kaikki se, on irl äärettömän tärkeää yhteiskunnallisen muutoksen tekoa.
raha on jees, mutta tunnustus on mulle erittäin arvokas.
...tämä juttu kertoo esimerkin kautta miksi ilmastoliike sanoo että "tarvitsemme järjestelmänmuutoksen"
yksittäisen kuluttajan luomuhummus ja polkupyöräily on hyviä juttuja ja teen niin itsekin, mutta entäs kun se ei riitä. entäs ne jotkaa pyyhkii lattiaa vastuullisuudella?
haastetelluilta tutkijoilta on valittu varovaiset sitaatit mutta lue juttu ja mieti mitä itse tekisit?
Ein Flug im Privatjet pustet mehr CO2 in die Luft, als die ärmsten 10% hierzulande pro Kopf & Jahr. Klar haben wir alle unseren Anteil an der #Klimakrise, aber manche haben halt 100 Anteile mehr.
@carorackete
wäre hilfreich wenn klar würde auf welche Flugstrecke sich die Aussage bezieht?
Im Artikel ist nur von Sylt <-> HH als meistgenutzte Kurzstrecke die Rede.
@p3m1r0@carorackete@ambodenbleiben Es klingt jedenfalls plausibel: Nach den Berechnungen in dieser Studie, https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021_05_private_jets_FINAL.pdf, erzeugt ein Flug im Privatjet 52-mal so viel Kohlendioxid wie die entsprechende Fahrt im Zug. (Siehe Figure 4 auf S. 15.) Ein einziger Flug im Privatjet ist also genauso CO2-intensiv wie wenn man dieselbe Strecke ein ganzes Jahr lang wöchentlich im Zug zurücklegen würde. Und wer von uns Normalsterblichen pendelt denn z.B. wöchentlich von Frankfurt nach Sylt? 🙄
BREAKING: #Sylt airport blocked by "the coolest birds who stay on the ground".
Dozens of penguins entered the airport area with bikes, others block the entrance with a tripod.
Sylt is one of Germany's top private jet airports for the super-rich. #BanPrivateJets@ambodenbleiben
Flying is fun and the ability to be hypermobile is fun but not at the cost of life as we know it. The world could use a whole lot less air travel. We can start by banning private jets and take it from there.
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
1971: Earth Overshoot Day fell on Dec. 25
1995 it was October 10
2005: September 3
2015: August 13
2023: August 2
In Qatar, Earth Overshoot Day is Feb 10. In Jamaica, it’s December 20
@gerrymcgovern Earth Overshoot Day in the US and Canada was on March 13! If the rest of the world were as wasteful as that we’d need the resources of FIVE Earths every year for all our needs.
If everyone were as wasteful as the UK we’d only be into our THIRD Earth of resources to get through the year. Earth Overshoot Day in the UK was on 19th May.
Charts like these – showing the immense carbon footprints of billionaires – should make us seriously question any exhortation on what "we" must do to address #ClimateChange (I'm guilty of using this phrasing too). Always ask: who is the "we"?
For a 31% global emissions reduction you don't even need to arrest the richest 10 %. To bring them to 'the emissions of an average European' would be already enough (doesn't sound so bad, doesn't it?).
Nowadays, the within inequality in a country is more relevant than the inter-country comparison. This means that every country has its rich, giving-a-fuck population. (Figure 2, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00955-z)
Notwithstanding, there is still a substantial contry-effect (your emissions depend on where you live). E.g. North America, Australia and Saudia Arabia are king regarding emissions. And Russia too, as relatively high emissions are caused by a not very wealthy population.
If you are rich, your personal choices matter. A lot. Stop flying, for example. And go ask your financial advisors what your money is doing. Very bad things, I guarantee.
where wealthier people need to reduce their individual footprint (for the ones that don't want to, we need tight laws: #BanPrivateJets), less wealthy people need sustainable infrastructure to enable them to have a lower footprint (public transport, affordable sustainable food, green electricity...)
The global poorest 50 % could increase their emissions still over 200% and were still below the 1.5 °C compatible global average. They are not responsible for the situation.
for the upper 40 %: #degrowth and #solarpunk. It'll make you happier to do useful things with nice people than to have boring jobs that kill the planet and drown yourself in consumerism.
For the more radical folks: Sorry for my reformist arguments. If we are enough and decided, we can go much further and resolve the more systematic issues. Love and riot. :anarchoheart3:
“But what have we asked of the wealthy? If just a handful of very wealthy people were to change just a handful of their behaviors, they could make more of a difference in one trip than millions of working-class people can in their lifetimes.”