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@waltercool
Someone will hate me for this: in the grand scheme of things, anyone of these high class people, flying their private jets, has barely any measurable impact on our planet compared with anything else we're concerned about (like car traffic), and if they were actually successful in changing... anything, it would be worth it anyway. BUT it is indeed still a hypocritical move, and I completely understand and agree with people calling it out.
Regular people use public transportation, and some people will use cars. Everyone else use regular plances which hold over 100 ppl at once.
If someone is trying to lecture someone, they should start with the example. I would never take the advice from someone who makes the exact opposite.
Why should I take their advice? That's ridiculous.
@waltercool
Told you people would hate this.
So here's the thinking, IF their advice and solutions actually worked, without burning the economy, and solved the climate crisis and energy crisis and whatever else you can think of, IF they managed that, it would be worth if for them to have even 1000 times your carbon footprint if it lead to the drastic reduction of pollutants from the billions of people around the world. It's one of those utilitarian calculations basically.
Sure, the hypocrisy is crap and I don't expect it to ever change, but when it comes to the actual issue, I'm personally more concerned about CO2 from the hundreds of millions of cars than maybe the few hundred private planes flown by these hypocrites. Numbers are numbers, and we'd be better off and make significantly more progress, if we could reduce the carbon footprint of all of us the plebs (without destroying the economy, quality of life etc) then if we gave a second thought to those hypocrite jackasses that will forever be clueless anyway.
@wrongthink @waltercool
Here's the thing about the volcanoes:
without human emissions, the planet (or rather the ecosystem) does have the ability to reabsorb the CO2 that comes from volcanoes, forest fires, etc. But the problem is, the entire thing worked in a pretty fragile balance.
The ecosystem could deal with the natural sources of CO2, but not much more on top of that. And then humans came along...
@alyx @waltercool I wonder how many talks and conferences they’re going to need in order to get those dirty volcanoes to stop spewing CO2.