Article on Flight Shaming and Carbon Emission
 

http://news.trust.org/item/20191105110922-soqa0

I hope the link works. I have always been a fan of sailing, but know in reality most people don't have a month or two to get somewhere.

Yep, as opposed to 200 people riding on one airplane I guess they should just all drive separately.

Carbon wise that's almost exactly a wash... with older traditional cars.

But that doesn't account for the economic and personal cost of the lost time and the required travel infrastructure. Or going around mountains, or over water.

I'm at the point where I tell people that when I start seeing the transcontinental shipping and cruise ship industry also start aggressively tackling their emissions, they can come back to aviation.

Modern aircraft are so much more efficient that there are much better low hanging fruit to go after now...

Start with Amazon and the shop-in-your-underwear business model. Way more carbon there.

I make it a point to show everybody I am using a plastic straw.

Nice thing about the US is we don't care about this kind of "shaming".

Socialists aren't known for their rational thought.

The nice thing is they are hurting their own cause. They are making this political and it's one of the reason you see more and more people rolling their eyes are the hysteria surrounding this climate alarmism.

That and the fact that there are a few doctorate level Climatologists, very respected by their peers, that have written papers that contradict the climate alarmist claims. Those however are not publicized by the media 24/7.

Not so sure.
Everyone in the neighborhood driving to multiple stores versus one truck delivering all the goods.

Yeah I think it saves fuel and emissions, as well as traffic congestion.

Doesn't save any cardboard though.