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'Flight shame' could halve growth in air traffic
'Flight shame' could halve growth in air traffic. That's not good for airlines and manufacturers! (www.bbc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This reminds me of the very first Earth Day, 1970, as I recall. I was in high school and we were urged to walk or ride our bikes to school that day. Instead of riding the bus, I biked the five miles to school. Guess what? The bus ran anyway.
This topic will disappear once "climate change" (formerly "global warming") ceases to be the cause-du-jour among the "Woke".
Saint Greta's one way trip across the Atlantic in a plastic racing boat, which "saved" one Transatlantic seat, lead to at least four unnecessary additional Transatlantic flights as two members of the yacht's westbound crew had to be replaced and flown back to Europe and two replacements flown to the US to replace them for the eastbound leg.
The various meetings and conferences, held several times a year in exotic locations, to consider this topic (many of which could be done by the participants online) also leads to increased fuel burn as huge numbers of private aircraft as well as scheduled flight seats are used by participants to jet around the world to discuss how they will reduce aircraft operations. Even the increased logistical requirements of special foods (and even flowers !) being flown in for the conferences leads to further totally unnecessary additional resource consumption.
Saint Greta's one way trip across the Atlantic in a plastic racing boat, which "saved" one Transatlantic seat, lead to at least four unnecessary additional Transatlantic flights as two members of the yacht's westbound crew had to be replaced and flown back to Europe and two replacements flown to the US to replace them for the eastbound leg.
The various meetings and conferences, held several times a year in exotic locations, to consider this topic (many of which could be done by the participants online) also leads to increased fuel burn as huge numbers of private aircraft as well as scheduled flight seats are used by participants to jet around the world to discuss how they will reduce aircraft operations. Even the increased logistical requirements of special foods (and even flowers !) being flown in for the conferences leads to further totally unnecessary additional resource consumption.
Right on. The new nobility, i.e. politicians and wealthy elites, will continue flying around the world on private jets, staying in 5 star hotels, and eating at michelin star restaurants while the rest of the ignorant masses who believed the climate change propaganda become modern day serfs as 50+% of their wages are taxed away so they can then only afford to walk, bike, or take a crowded, smelly bus to work.
Let me guess, you don't live near the coast.
Tell that to Obama who just dropped $14.000,000 for a waterfront property.
Oh, do you think that was his money? LOL
Very clean money...I mean well laundered. Pay off from NetFlics and the money from his book yet to be produced.
Not to mention the hundreds of Billions still unaccounted for from that administration.