No. The cost of holidaying in Ireland is a disgrace. Flew to Bratislava for 36 Euro return a couple of months ago. Never mind vacation, Blanch to Crumlin cost me more than that in a taxi last weekend. Get fucked.
Not a fair question as unlike most Europeans we don’t have a rail option to the sun.
No. Definitely not. As another poster said, one person won’t cause much difference. You’d need to have EVERYONE on board (or not lol) and you won’t get that. You’ll have the big polluters as it is (china, Middle East, USA, all of Europe etc) not doing it for sure.
For the brief trips I take 1-2 times a year, and enjoyment it brings, no. I’ll continue.
Edit: I forgot Europe. Oops!
Some people jet around the world multiple times a month, no concern given to their carbon emissions, and we all accept it. But sure, punish the middling family that flys to Europe once a year for their one holiday
Already have
Give it up? I haven’t had a holiday abroad in over 10 years.
Nah.
Pricey as fuck to stay here as it is, imagine giving the fuckers a reason to up their prices.
Not give up, but reduce. I’ve been trying to do 1 long trip instead of multiple short ones abroad. Take 3 weeks and bop around the place using overnight busses/trains.
Just carbon tax the airlines. Market will do the rest.
Absolutely fucking not. A European city break every few months is the only thing that makes life bearable in this country.
No, even though I haven’t been abroad further than England in over 5 years now.
Stop turning this issue on the working and middle class. *Stop flying. Stop eating meat. Stop driving. Stop farming. Stop washing. Stop using your electricity.*
Or maybe start blaming the massive juggernaut companies that are causing this crisis.
I would but the rest of ye feckin wouldn’t so feck that I’m gonna go on three!
Nah, you ban private planes.
I can imagine a certain class of wealthy people who fly on a consistent basis should be taxed before the average Joe’s and Josie’s of the world give up their one or two breaks a year, these are the same regular people being asked to cut down on everything else in their lives so why keep hitting them with more “reduce your use” shite ?
I’d switch to a lower emissions alternative if it wasn’t too inconvenient.
“A day out of Ireland is a day wasted” someone actually said that to me once.
Just looked up costs out of curiosity. 23-25 September in Killarney would cost around €370. If I wanted to go for food and drinks both nights it would probably add on another €100 per night so I’d estimate it at about €570.
Then I looked at Gran Canaria, hotel on the beach from 19-25 September is €305. Maybe €60 per night for food and drinks. Return flights on skyscanner are €146 but these are not direct.
So about €870 for a week in the sun compared to €570 for 2 nights in Killarney. Ireland is a ripoff for breaks away.
Amazing some of the comments here in comparison to the comments on some of the posts about agricultural emissions.
How about we just cut 30% of the planes flying in and out of the nations airports and see what happens?
Realistically speaking you’d have to be pretty wealthy to holiday in Ireland for 2 weeks like you would in Spain. The majority of people can’t afford that so I doubt that many would be willing to do that.
Would companies be willing to give up flying a handful of people halfway across the world to visit an office and give a presentation which could easily have been done remotely, to reduce emissions?
Would CEOs be willing to give up their private jets to reduce emissions?
Would ministries of defence be willing to cull their air forces to reduce emissions?
Why is it always the working/middle class being targeted like this? They are the demographics with the lowest individual contributions to climate change, yet they get lectured to daily about “being better” in preachy advertisements that quite possibly had higher emissions produced in shooting them than any person watching it produces in their day-to-day life.
I wouldn’t give it up, I’d just move abroad full stop
Right, this has sealed it for me. Theres curation of posts on here intended to push narratives.
No
I actually haven’t been on a plane since 2008. But not for emission reasons.
I haven’t eaten meat in 25 years. I recycle and make sure it’s a cleaned out before it goes in the recycling bin. I compost. I don’t drive. I turn lights off when I leave a room. I try not to waste water. But it’s all bollix. What difference is it making? My conscience will keep me doing it but it’s like trying to dry up the ocean with a hairdryer.
Life is tough. People need a break. Screw that shit. I do plan on going away next year. And I will damn well enjoy it.
End private jet ownership instead
This type of stuff is neo feudalism we will become a peasant class while the elites do what they want. These laws only affect us
Getting really fed up being told I should “give up” things that I can scarcely afford anyway while the same culprits kill the planet in the name of profit continuously.
The people who own the private jets tell the people who occasionally use the private jets to tell the people who have the good jobs to tell the rest of us to stop living our lives.
Maybe if celebs and politicians gave up their private jets first
Here is this some poxy blog asking people for opinions on emissions lately.
This is like blaming people who take the bus to work for too much emissions instead of people who drive a 6L bugatti Veron 100 meters down the road to the shop.
Tax private jets and the like, not the normal person who just wants to have a week or 2 of enjoyment every couple of years.
Yes if billionaires stopped flying also
No
Nope
Not a chance.
LMAO, no.
No
Greece has nothing on a warm Julys day in Birr
Simply, no.
The guilt put on average people going on holidays in an airplane that fits 100+ people is getting extremely tedious.
No
If people really wanted to help the environment they would kill politicians instead of cows. The flatulence that comes out of their mouth when they talk shit definitely effects the environment more than you eating a can of beans. Cows are cuter and more loveable anyway 😂
I don’t see why we can’t just focus on improving the railway system in Eurasia and just use planes for transatlantic travel. If you could get the train to Paris in 4 hours people would do it.
I might be wrong but I think something like 1% of people are responsible for half of airline emissions. It’s clear we should be heavily taxing frequent flyers.
There’s rich cunts flying planes as a fecking hobby and it’s being floated for the rest of us living in their wake to sacrifice the two weeks a year respite we have from the Irish weather.
I’m hitting breaking point here I feel. Just reading there that our government is effectively subsidising energy company’s obscene profits with tax payer money and then you see this shit pitched…I’m more than willing to make my sacrifices as long as it’s not done so as to keep the rich from having to make their own
Absolutely not. Families save and be diligent year round in order to spend a week or two in the sun somewhere. The fact that politicians worldwide saying we need to cut down on emissions are the very same ones taking private jets on a regular basis.
Punishing/shaming the average family trying to get by and enjoy a week or two in the sun is terrible.
No. I think the million/ billionaires who fly private and whose companies do more damage to the environment than I could in a thousand life times should be the one who first change to protect the environment. As usual it will be the working classes through different laws and taxes who will bare the brunt of new climate change initiatives and not the people who actually do the damage.
No, dumb question
Why -So we can feel even more like peasants, while the rich elite do whatever they want on their private jets and mega yachts?
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No. The cost of holidaying in Ireland is a disgrace. Flew to Bratislava for 36 Euro return a couple of months ago. Never mind vacation, Blanch to Crumlin cost me more than that in a taxi last weekend. Get fucked.
Not a fair question as unlike most Europeans we don’t have a rail option to the sun.
No. Definitely not. As another poster said, one person won’t cause much difference. You’d need to have EVERYONE on board (or not lol) and you won’t get that. You’ll have the big polluters as it is (china, Middle East, USA, all of Europe etc) not doing it for sure.
For the brief trips I take 1-2 times a year, and enjoyment it brings, no. I’ll continue.
Edit: I forgot Europe. Oops!
Some people jet around the world multiple times a month, no concern given to their carbon emissions, and we all accept it. But sure, punish the middling family that flys to Europe once a year for their one holiday
Already have
Give it up? I haven’t had a holiday abroad in over 10 years.
Nah.
Pricey as fuck to stay here as it is, imagine giving the fuckers a reason to up their prices.
Not give up, but reduce. I’ve been trying to do 1 long trip instead of multiple short ones abroad. Take 3 weeks and bop around the place using overnight busses/trains.
Just carbon tax the airlines. Market will do the rest.
Absolutely fucking not. A European city break every few months is the only thing that makes life bearable in this country.
No, even though I haven’t been abroad further than England in over 5 years now.
Stop turning this issue on the working and middle class. *Stop flying. Stop eating meat. Stop driving. Stop farming. Stop washing. Stop using your electricity.*
Or maybe start blaming the massive juggernaut companies that are causing this crisis.
I would but the rest of ye feckin wouldn’t so feck that I’m gonna go on three!
Nah, you ban private planes.
I can imagine a certain class of wealthy people who fly on a consistent basis should be taxed before the average Joe’s and Josie’s of the world give up their one or two breaks a year, these are the same regular people being asked to cut down on everything else in their lives so why keep hitting them with more “reduce your use” shite ?
I’d switch to a lower emissions alternative if it wasn’t too inconvenient.
“A day out of Ireland is a day wasted” someone actually said that to me once.
Just looked up costs out of curiosity. 23-25 September in Killarney would cost around €370. If I wanted to go for food and drinks both nights it would probably add on another €100 per night so I’d estimate it at about €570.
Then I looked at Gran Canaria, hotel on the beach from 19-25 September is €305. Maybe €60 per night for food and drinks. Return flights on skyscanner are €146 but these are not direct.
So about €870 for a week in the sun compared to €570 for 2 nights in Killarney. Ireland is a ripoff for breaks away.
Amazing some of the comments here in comparison to the comments on some of the posts about agricultural emissions.
How about we just cut 30% of the planes flying in and out of the nations airports and see what happens?
Realistically speaking you’d have to be pretty wealthy to holiday in Ireland for 2 weeks like you would in Spain. The majority of people can’t afford that so I doubt that many would be willing to do that.
Would companies be willing to give up flying a handful of people halfway across the world to visit an office and give a presentation which could easily have been done remotely, to reduce emissions?
Would CEOs be willing to give up their private jets to reduce emissions?
Would ministries of defence be willing to cull their air forces to reduce emissions?
Why is it always the working/middle class being targeted like this? They are the demographics with the lowest individual contributions to climate change, yet they get lectured to daily about “being better” in preachy advertisements that quite possibly had higher emissions produced in shooting them than any person watching it produces in their day-to-day life.
I wouldn’t give it up, I’d just move abroad full stop
Right, this has sealed it for me. Theres curation of posts on here intended to push narratives.
No
I actually haven’t been on a plane since 2008. But not for emission reasons.
I haven’t eaten meat in 25 years. I recycle and make sure it’s a cleaned out before it goes in the recycling bin. I compost. I don’t drive. I turn lights off when I leave a room. I try not to waste water. But it’s all bollix. What difference is it making? My conscience will keep me doing it but it’s like trying to dry up the ocean with a hairdryer.
Life is tough. People need a break. Screw that shit. I do plan on going away next year. And I will damn well enjoy it.
End private jet ownership instead
This type of stuff is neo feudalism we will become a peasant class while the elites do what they want. These laws only affect us
Getting really fed up being told I should “give up” things that I can scarcely afford anyway while the same culprits kill the planet in the name of profit continuously.
The people who own the private jets tell the people who occasionally use the private jets to tell the people who have the good jobs to tell the rest of us to stop living our lives.
Maybe if celebs and politicians gave up their private jets first
Here is this some poxy blog asking people for opinions on emissions lately.
This is like blaming people who take the bus to work for too much emissions instead of people who drive a 6L bugatti Veron 100 meters down the road to the shop.
Tax private jets and the like, not the normal person who just wants to have a week or 2 of enjoyment every couple of years.
Yes if billionaires stopped flying also
No
Nope
Not a chance.
LMAO, no.
No
Greece has nothing on a warm Julys day in Birr
Simply, no.
The guilt put on average people going on holidays in an airplane that fits 100+ people is getting extremely tedious.
No
If people really wanted to help the environment they would kill politicians instead of cows. The flatulence that comes out of their mouth when they talk shit definitely effects the environment more than you eating a can of beans. Cows are cuter and more loveable anyway 😂
I don’t see why we can’t just focus on improving the railway system in Eurasia and just use planes for transatlantic travel. If you could get the train to Paris in 4 hours people would do it.
I might be wrong but I think something like 1% of people are responsible for half of airline emissions. It’s clear we should be heavily taxing frequent flyers.
There’s rich cunts flying planes as a fecking hobby and it’s being floated for the rest of us living in their wake to sacrifice the two weeks a year respite we have from the Irish weather.
I’m hitting breaking point here I feel. Just reading there that our government is effectively subsidising energy company’s obscene profits with tax payer money and then you see this shit pitched…I’m more than willing to make my sacrifices as long as it’s not done so as to keep the rich from having to make their own
Absolutely not. Families save and be diligent year round in order to spend a week or two in the sun somewhere. The fact that politicians worldwide saying we need to cut down on emissions are the very same ones taking private jets on a regular basis.
Punishing/shaming the average family trying to get by and enjoy a week or two in the sun is terrible.
No. I think the million/ billionaires who fly private and whose companies do more damage to the environment than I could in a thousand life times should be the one who first change to protect the environment. As usual it will be the working classes through different laws and taxes who will bare the brunt of new climate change initiatives and not the people who actually do the damage.
No, dumb question
Why -So we can feel even more like peasants, while the rich elite do whatever they want on their private jets and mega yachts?