How many flights have you not taken in the last years out of concern for #ClimateChange?
My intuition is that for the vast majority of us the answer is: zero đ
Thatâs true for me, at least. (The last time I used a plane was almost five years ago, but in my case itâs just because I had no business trips or holidays overseas while my kids were very little.)
Air #travel is one of the things I find most difficult to say no to for environmental reasons đ˘
Where did you find that 5%?
It seems itâs even less! 1.9%â3.5%. And that includes freight by plane.
Thatâs âgood newsâ: I thought it was much higher. Itâs probably best to focus on other actions, as you said.
One real problem is that air travel is the only type of travel for which there is no viable alternative to fossil fuels, because batteries canât pack energy densely enough for takeoff.
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#transport-16-2
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