Do business and first class airline seats really pollute much more than their economy equivalent? 🤔

Yes. Here's why.

Under the current system, air travel - particulary luxury seats - are subsidised while green travel is heavily taxed. It makes zero sense, and has to change.

We need levies on luxury tickets and to Tax the Super Rich to fund affordable, climate-friendly travel.

#BetterPlanetOnline #TaxTheRich #TaxTheSuperRich #StayGrounded #MoreTrainsLessPlanes #DoeDeurneDicht #StopPrivateJets #Greenpeace

Krieg ist Frieden. Freiheit ist Sklaverei. Unwissenheit ist Stärke.

Flughäfen sind Klimaschutz.

#StayGrounded @StayGrounded_net #AmBodenBleiben

https://www.fr.de/politik/flughaefen-als-klimaschutz-ngos-werfen-der-eu-greenwashing-vor-94088687.html

Flughäfen als Klimaschutz: NGOs werfen der EU Greenwashing vor

Die EU will Flughafen-Investitionen als Klimaanpassung anrechnen. Naturschutzverbände kritisieren das pauschale Bewertungssystem scharf.

Krieg ist Frieden. Freiheit ist Sklaverei. Unwissenheit ist Stärke. Flughäfen sind Klimaschutz. #StayGrounded @staygroundednet.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #AmBodenBleiben

Flughäfen als Klimaschutz: NGO...
Flughäfen als Klimaschutz: NGOs werfen der EU Greenwashing vor

Die EU will Flughafen-Investitionen als Klimaanpassung anrechnen. Naturschutzverbände kritisieren das pauschale Bewertungssystem scharf.

On Flight free traveling - Ethos and Empathy

The last time I stepped on a plane was 2018. Since then, I advocate for flight free travels, for the sake of the environment but also because it’s a matter of environmental justice (I explain thoroughly why aviation is extremely detrimental not only for the planet but also for people who have never stepped on […]

Ethos and Empathy

A new study about creation of further flight cirrus within already existing cirrus clouds increases the climate impact of aviation by previously unknown 10%
Seelig et al 2025: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66231-8

A good German summary and explainer of why, when, and where flight cirrus are harming us https://www.scinexx.de/news/geowissen/klima-wie-versteckte-kondensstreifen-zur-erwaermung-beitragen/

So each ton of flight-CO2 is really worth 3.3t. Based on Lee et al 2021 – cited by the Seelig paper as well – who found that burning kerosene in high altitude has 3 times the warming impact over burning fossil fuels on the ground.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66231-8

I know only 1 CO2 calculator that correctly observes the tripling impact:
https://uba.co2-rechner.de/de_DE/calculator/flight/

Another thought: the aviation industry expects a 5% increase every year. And by the way, according to Atmosfair, most flights are not biz flights but private choices.
So with +5% each year, how will the cirrus impact evolve?
The number of passengers would double every 16 years. While it doesn't necessarily mean that the number of contrails doubles in 16 years as well, as it depends on number of machines in the air for doubled passenger numbers. But to put it mildly, doubling passenger count is not going to decrease contrails either.

I think, contrails have direct and disruptive impact on societies. Because they heat up night-time 2m temperatures locally by maybe 2°C compared to no cirrus. A heatwave gets that much more stressful. And the weather gets that much more angry energy to produce extreme events.
Dunno how much this occurs over oceans and what the impact there is. The ocean surface and low depths have such a long memory for temperature. What happens over the ocean stays in the ocean, so to speak.

The official EU petition for rationing flight-CO2 died today. See https://fedifreu.de/@anlomedad/115734699056447173

#StayGrounded #Flightcirrus #contrails #ClimateChange

@anlomedad

The official EU petition to ration aviation CO2 died today. It got 7,278 signatures out of 1 mio.
France: 5,116 which is 9% of the required.
Germany: 478, which is 0.7% of the required.

On the same day as the aviation CO2-petition, one about computer games launched as well. It reached the quorum of 1mio signatures across the 27 member states in a very short time.

If it weren't yet clear to me that our our neoliberal society is going to self-destruct due to dynamics among us normal people– now confirmed anew – I would start shamelessly posting EU-Petitions I am interested in in reply to such toots with highly frequented petitions.

I documented a few dates with numbers:
2024-12-21
1114 (France gained 200 in the past 2 days. Now 868.)

2024-12-31
1321 (France now 1022)

2025-05-13
total 4336
(France now 3454,
Germany now 173 )

2025-06-30
total 5091
(France now 3712,
Germany now 256)

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_de

#StayGrounded #EUpetition

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