I’ve if the reasons i feel private jets exist is so that is they crash stone egotistical twat can have a headline that reads “Egotistical twat dies in plane crash” rather than “Plane crash kills hundreds” with egotistical twat only mentioned in the main story.
It’s not the only reason to fly without having to interact with normal people, they might start asking awkward questions like “My dad can’t afford rent this week but your company profits wouldn’t be dented if you doubled his salary so why haven’t you done it?”
That sort of thing is a horror story to the exceedingly wealthy.
But how else will they be able to travel to their big international conferences to tell us to scrap our cars and take the bus?
Lol, look at all the broke redditors downvoting.
I guess its true: nobody is poor in the US, there are only temporarily embarrased millionaires.
If the post would be about a general CO2 tax everyone would be cheering – the difference of course being that the latter leaves the privileges of the rich (the biggest polluters) intact and only prohibits the poor (the lesser polluters) from flying.
Yes ban the shit out of private jets! A solution where the 99% have to burden more so that the elite doesn’t have to cut back at all is not a solution at all.
There is such a thing as economic science.
That means, that it is based in real human psychology – and psychology [ including psychology ] is a social science.
Now, granted, that is an unwelcome concept in most of “social media” – especially because the owners don’t want the rubes to know how they are being programmed. But still.
Private jets account for such a small proportion of fuel use and carbon emissions that they are nowhere near worth the attention they have been getting. In the meantime you hardly see any environmentalist groups or “scientists” protesting for more nuclear power because god forbid we implement a readily available abundant and safe source of energy that could actully forestall a climate crisis. No, instead we’re busy banning private jets for very little logical reason other than rich people bad.
From what I can ascertain private flights which include luxury transport, private courier, mapping and geological survey, mercy light aircraft and light personnel aviation amount to about 0.9% of all aviation emissions. Aviation emissions as a total (excluding military) add unto about 2.5% of global emissions 99.1 % of which is produced by normal commercial fights.
As a comparison concrete production produces about 7 to 10 % of global emissions.
Private luxury aviation produces miniscule amount of emissions in the grand scheme of things but it is easy to target by people who want “feel” like the they are making a difference because of its very obvious decadence. It’s a much harder to convince people that all types of aviation especially the cheap long haul flights we all use are the real problem and giving them up might be a necessity. In fact i’m sure that most air carriers are quite happy for you to focus on the decadent rich while they dump a billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
YES!
Any country that has a problem with petrol vehicles but not private jets and massive corporate emissions really just has a problem with working class people. If you want more people to support environmental action, promote measures like these, which inconvenience the billionaires rather than harming the masses.
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I’ve if the reasons i feel private jets exist is so that is they crash stone egotistical twat can have a headline that reads “Egotistical twat dies in plane crash” rather than “Plane crash kills hundreds” with egotistical twat only mentioned in the main story.
It’s not the only reason to fly without having to interact with normal people, they might start asking awkward questions like “My dad can’t afford rent this week but your company profits wouldn’t be dented if you doubled his salary so why haven’t you done it?”
That sort of thing is a horror story to the exceedingly wealthy.
But how else will they be able to travel to their big international conferences to tell us to scrap our cars and take the bus?
Lol, look at all the broke redditors downvoting.
I guess its true: nobody is poor in the US, there are only temporarily embarrased millionaires.
If the post would be about a general CO2 tax everyone would be cheering – the difference of course being that the latter leaves the privileges of the rich (the biggest polluters) intact and only prohibits the poor (the lesser polluters) from flying.
Yes ban the shit out of private jets! A solution where the 99% have to burden more so that the elite doesn’t have to cut back at all is not a solution at all.
There is such a thing as economic science.
That means, that it is based in real human psychology – and psychology [ including psychology ] is a social science.
Now, granted, that is an unwelcome concept in most of “social media” – especially because the owners don’t want the rubes to know how they are being programmed. But still.
Private jets account for such a small proportion of fuel use and carbon emissions that they are nowhere near worth the attention they have been getting. In the meantime you hardly see any environmentalist groups or “scientists” protesting for more nuclear power because god forbid we implement a readily available abundant and safe source of energy that could actully forestall a climate crisis. No, instead we’re busy banning private jets for very little logical reason other than rich people bad.
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation
From what I can ascertain private flights which include luxury transport, private courier, mapping and geological survey, mercy light aircraft and light personnel aviation amount to about 0.9% of all aviation emissions. Aviation emissions as a total (excluding military) add unto about 2.5% of global emissions 99.1 % of which is produced by normal commercial fights.
As a comparison concrete production produces about 7 to 10 % of global emissions.
Private luxury aviation produces miniscule amount of emissions in the grand scheme of things but it is easy to target by people who want “feel” like the they are making a difference because of its very obvious decadence. It’s a much harder to convince people that all types of aviation especially the cheap long haul flights we all use are the real problem and giving them up might be a necessity. In fact i’m sure that most air carriers are quite happy for you to focus on the decadent rich while they dump a billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
YES!
Any country that has a problem with petrol vehicles but not private jets and massive corporate emissions really just has a problem with working class people. If you want more people to support environmental action, promote measures like these, which inconvenience the billionaires rather than harming the masses.
Tax the jets