jedrider wrote:Tourism in France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_FranceTourism in France directly contributed 77.7 billion euros to gross domestic product, 30% of which comes from international visitors and 70% from domestic tourism spending. The total contribution of travel and tourism represents 9.7% of GDP and supports 2.9 million jobs (10.9% of employment) in the country.
Let's put it this way:
France has a low density rural population and high density city population (pulled this factoid out of my ass, but it appears that way).
France relies upon nuclear energy more than any other country (AFAIK).
France preserves it's history well (AFAIK).
Seems like an ideal post peak-oil society to me.
I didn't mention that their food is great, too. Of course, they have the benefit of ample rainfall and land very suitable to agriculture.
Agriculture in France
https://frenchfoodintheus.org/1913Today, it employs 3.5% of the French active population. The land consolidation and the reorganization of the agriculture led to a fall in the number of farms. Today, the average size of the farms is much larger than 60 years ago (around 55 hectares).
Today, there are 490,000 farms in metropolitan France and 24,800 in the overseas regions. This represents a Utilized Agricultural Area of nearly 30 million hectares, that is to say still more than half of French territory. This Utilized Agricultural Area is divided in 3 major crops: 63% of cropland (cereal and forage crops mainly), 34% of areas under grass and 3% of perennial crops, vineyards and orchards.
France is the first agricultural power in the European Union. With an agricultural production of 61 billion euros in 2009, it produces 19% of European agricultural goods and has the largest agricultural area.
KaiserJeep wrote: Apes doing their thing, behaving as apes behave on the surface of a planet, until the planet is no longer a good place to live.
Yes, here comes the space pitch.
Cottager wrote:I don't think that place plenty of nuclear reactors is "ideal post peak-oil society", rather opposite. Without stable electricity supply such area will become uninhabitable for many thousand years. Simply water in spent fuel pools will boil, spitting radioactive waste into atmosphere. Such things need stable society, not "post peak oil".
The aviation industry is even worse for climate change than previously thought, with a new study revealing the damage being done by otherwise harmless contrails.
They're so bad, German researchers say, they're responsible for more warming than all aviation carbon emissions ever made - from the day the Wright brothers flew their first plane until now.
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The researchers modelled the effect contrails would have up until the year 2050, when the skies are expected to be four times busier than they are already. While cleaner fuels will help keep aviation's impact on temperatures in check, the sheer amount of cloud cover formed by contrails will wipe out any gains.
Plantagenet wrote:
Environmental hypocrites like Drake and DiCaprio denounce global warming, and then fly off in their huge private jets to their various engagements.
Ibon wrote: for every Trump and Dicaprio flying around on private jets like hogs there are tens of millions of commercial passengers frivolously flying around the planet.
Ibon wrote:It doesn't matter that folks on commercial jets have better fuel efficiency per passenger mile
Ibon wrote:You are one of them no matter how much you try to squirm around telling funny stories.
Plantagenet wrote:[
Please note that you are also "one of them no matter how much you try to squirm around" and point the finger at others. Be honest with yourself.
Ibon wrote:I have every reason to rationalize that what we do here is somehow saving the planet. I have every reason to rationalize promoting tourism as somehow educating folks on the environment.
If I tried to rationalize as you do.....
Ibon wrote:.... your previous post blaming Trumps and the military or Dicaprio and giving yourself a pass because you fly more energy efficiently than they .
Ibon wrote:..... shit.....
Ibon wrote:That is the closest you ever got to owning your
own xxxxx.
The aviation industry has seen dramatic growth over the past 20 years, with passenger numbers rising from 1.467 billion in 1998 to 3.979 billion in 2017, according to statistics from the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Airlines are ramping up to serve more passengers by modernizing their fleets and adding buying new generation aircraft that are more fuel-efficient and also by becoming more sophisticated retailers, to compete with low-cost rivals while maintaining healthy profitability.
Plantagenet wrote:Ibon wrote:That is the closest you ever got to owning your
own xxxxx.
Thats not true.
I've posted again and again that I am responsible for my travels and my CO2 emissions and my effect on global climate.
As are you.
As is everyone on earth.
And I've managed to admit my own responsibility for my own CO2 emissions without once going potty mouth and all the while maintaining my sunny disposition and my rapier like wit.
I hope you are having a great season at the eco-lodge, Ibon. I admire what you've accomplished there.
Cheers!
Plantagenet wrote:Thats why the best way to address carbon emissions is with a top down approach like a carbon tax or a ban on private jets that forces carbon emissions down,
Cheers!
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