NightOwl1 in 10 flights taking off from UK are private jets
NocturnalEngineerMajority of private jets carrying 3 passengers or less, releasing 10 times as much carbon per passenger than a commercial flight.
As a peasant, I don’t think reducing my carbon footprint will offset the disgusting (increasing) display of greed from the elites.
joelthelionWe need both. The elite’s footprint is gross and disgusting, but we peasants are far more numerous, so reducing the elite’s footprint alone won’t do the trick.
the thing is, i will refuse to behave until the bigger misbehavers are held accountable
This kind of reasoning is why we are not making progress. It’s much easier to hold others to high standards when you’ve applied these to yourself first. The same goes for countries: it will be easier to pressure China/India when the West has done their part.
how do you expect people to apply those standards to themselves before they are applied to the biggest sinners?
ghost_laptopNo, we are not making peogress because of your kind of reasoning. We need to make accountable to the bourgeois, the rulling class, even if the whole working class reduced its carbon footprint it would still not make a significant change, they must be replaced and forced to change their ways.
If all the rich were dead, the “normal folks” would still want 2 day shipping, cellphones every 3 years, non local ingredients, and fossil fuel cars.
The West can only “do its part” because we’ve shipped all our worst industries to China and India.
Doing our part includes reducing our consumption. Where things are produced doesn’t matter all that much for this part of the problem.
Global industrial practices and corporations are the biggest offenders, by far.
You know who uses all the shit they make?