Airbus and Boeing are exploring the viability of electric planes
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#2Or we just stop flying arround the world for two-day trips.
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#3Or we just stop flying arround the world for two-day trips.
I think we should now be at a point where we realize that people won't give up these benefits to their lives "for the greater good".
Convincing people to go green as a business model would be a huge failure - nobody would pay to get convinced to stop doing something convenient.
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#4Or we just stop flying arround the world for two-day trips.
Or add a large tax to flying that pays for the development of green solutions.
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#5Or we just stop flying arround the world for two-day trips.
You have 80 years before you become dirt.
And your solution is to see less of the world.
Since you believe in it, I guess it might convince a few people. But before I become nothing I want to travel as much as I can, be it two days at a time or two years at a time.
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#6The stat that really woke me up to how popular travel was when an aviation magazine once posted that at any second of any day, there are at least one million people flying in an airplane somewhere.
That's an entire good sized city full of people who are not in contact with the ground at any point in time you care to pick. And that article was quite a few years old, I wouldn't be surprised if that number has increased significantly lately.
That should bring some perspective to the environmental impact of transporting that many people around the globe.
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#7Or we just stop flying arround the world for two-day trips.
Who exactly are "we" and how should they be stopped?
Flying around the world for two-day trips isn't something that the great majority of the human population will ever do.
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#8The stat that really woke me up to how popular travel was when an aviation magazine once posted that at any second of any day, there are at least one million people flying in an airplane somewhere. That's an entire good sized city full of people who are not in contact with the ground at any point in time you care to pick. And that article was quite a few years old, I wouldn't be surprised if that number has increased…
..and it's reassuring me of the safety of aviation.
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#9The stat that really woke me up to how popular travel was when an aviation magazine once posted that at any second of any day, there are at least one million people flying in an airplane somewhere. That's an entire good sized city full of people who are not in contact with the ground at any point in time you care to pick. And that article was quite a few years old, I wouldn't be surprised if that number has increased…
..and it's reassuring me of the safety of aviation.
That is a huge positive aspect. Whenever anyone I know laments an air crash somewhere in the world, I just say to them "Right now, there are over 1 million people airborne, and who will arrive at their destination safely. The same will happen in 10 minutes, in an hour, in 6 hours, and tomorrow".
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#10Norway is in an ideal position; a surplus from oil money and excessive access to hydro power. I would hope they can use their current oil prosperity to prepare for a hydro (and other green energy) powered future, in all kinds of new places.
After I typed that I realized that the whole world could be said to be in oil prosperity still, so the same applies to us all: with less evenly distributed oil prosperity, and not every species of green energy available everywhere.