1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions.
and, as it turns out, nearly all of those business trips weren't necessary.
seeing loved ones is pretty much the only morally justifiable use for luxury aviation emissions in a climate emergency.https://t.co/0V5jaNLqSp
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) November 18, 2020
More than half of Americans never got on a plane at all in 2018. And Americans as a whole still flew 50x more miles than the average person from Africa in 2018.
We can't continue to treat cheap air travel as something compatible with a habitable planet.
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) November 18, 2020
So you say: "seeing loved ones is pretty much the only morally justifiable use for luxury aviation emissions in a climate emergency."
We are so grateful to you for stepping up to be the decider of what is and is not 'morally justifiable'. What else should we do and not do?
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) November 18, 2020
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1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions – study
Exclusive: Researchers say Covid-19 hiatus is moment to tackle elite ‘super emitters’
US air passengers have by far the biggest carbon footprint among rich countries. Its aviation emissions are bigger than the next 10 countries combined, including the UK, Japan, Germany and Australia, the study reports.
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“If you want to resolve climate change and we need to redesign [aviation], then we should start at the top, where a few ‘super emitters’ contribute massively to global warming,” said Stefan Gössling at Linnaeus University in Sweden, who led the new study.
“The rich have had far too much freedom to design the planet according to their wishes. We should see the crisis as an opportunity to slim the air transport system.”
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