dohboi wrote:.... conscience....slaves....Of course, people will jump up and down and say, 'That's not the same thing!' And of course, it isn't--that's why it's called a comparison and not a tautology. But I think the comparison is not without some merit.
Ibon wrote:One thing to add about increasingly volatile times..... the status quo gets undermined and we start to see more extremes culturally just like the weather.
Ibon wrote:I think there is a meeting point where the top down approach meets the bottoms up.
Plantagenet wrote:
But its still possible for individual travelers to have the same kind of 19th century-style travel adventures today. For instance, when I travelled the Camino de Santiago across Spain by bicycle there were many many other people traveling the pilgrimage route on foot or by bicycle, having a very local and very wonderful non-motorized travel experience.
Cog wrote:You eco-terrorists should just kill tourists to show your conviction of your beliefs. We have threads on "How rich people are killing the planet, How the Middle Class are killing the planet, How Meat-eaters are killing the planet and now this thread on how Tourists are killing the planet".
Cog wrote:Environmentalists and climate change wackos are members of a death cult. Nothing I have seen posted here in the last eleven years convinces me otherwise. Just skip the discussion and do what you really want to do.
This year's Summit focused on discussing solutions to climate change, and Foer shared his own plan to fight climate change on an individual level.
"My plan — eat vegan for breakfast and lunch, vegetarian for dinner, don't fly for leisure in 2020, three cab rides a week maximum," Foer said.
dohboi wrote:I won't even address P's version of the old Exxon ad 'life itself would be impossible without carbon.'
Plantagenet wrote:And how is that more useful then scientists studying the carbon cycle, or engineers working on geoengineering schemes?
The figures, published in a Department for Transport survey, also reveal that the 10% most frequent flyers in England took more than half of all international flights in 2018. However, 48% of the population did not take a single flight abroad in the last year.
Environmental activists said the new figures showed the UK could cut air traffic and emissions without affecting ordinary holidaymakers.
Leo Murray, director of innovation at 10:10 Climate Action
“What we need to do is target a minority of problem flyers and stop them from taking so many flights,” he added.
The findings are based on responses from more than 15,000 English residents who participated in the 2018 National Transport Survey and were revealed to the Guardian following a Freedom of Information request.
There is currently no country in which travellers pay an escalating levy on each flight they take in a year.
Chris Stark, the CCC’s chief executive...argued that the UK should take a leading role in cutting emissions from the sector, rather than wait for more comprehensive international agreements to be struck.
1% of English residents take one-fifth of overseas flights, survey shows
Plantagenet wrote:I am constantly amazed that people can't at least be civil to one-another in their posts.
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