Climate activists from Last Generation disrupted Munich airport by gluing themselves to a runway, leading to flight cancellations and delays over a busy weekend.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/OaVXl
Climate activists from Last Generation disrupted Munich airport by gluing themselves to a runway, leading to flight cancellations and delays over a busy weekend.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/OaVXl
Grounding planes is probably one of the most effective ways a person can cut emissions.
I’m absolutely for eliminating domestic flights within European countries. Let’s get some good trains going instead. But traveling the skies is one of humanities greatest achievements and lets us explore other cultures in a way we otherwise never could. Let’s not get rid of those. I don’t want to be trapped here. Ban 30€ flights from Germany to Mallorca? Absolutely! Ban flights from Germany to APAC, Africa or the Americas? Please don’t.
As a Mallorca resident, I’ll take the 40 minute flight from Barcelona over the 6 hour boat trip thank you very much
I’m sorry, I was referring to Germans that head down to Mallorca for a weekend to get shitfaced. It doesn’t make sense that a train ride from Hamburg to Munich costs 5 times as much as a flight from Hamburg to Mallorca.
Inner European flights are also important, until we have a dedicated highspeed train network that connects all of Europe’s larger cities with each other.
To be clear, I am all pro trains. In Spain trains are also 3 to 5 times more expensive than the same trip on a plane which I find bizarre
This is peak entitlement
Literally, I am not entitled to fast and comfortable methods of transportation just for living on an island?
We can speak about reducing the frequency of flights, finding more efficient ways to fly, or faster boats. But planes still have a use case
Well, no you’re not, if it was up to me. Same with flying from Munich to Berlin. You have the choice do it, but you shouldn’t, because it’s emitting like 200x the amount of CO2 and you know it. So take the less damaging option, for the sake of all of us and our children. How else are we supposed to drop emissions to zero in the next 25 years if everyone feels entitled to “fast and comfortable”?!
The least damaging option is to go back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle, let’s not be extremists.
Plus according to This web page , a 100km economy class plane ticket emits 1.2x the amount of co2
This is not possible anymore. But you taking a boat is. :)
True! Now they can sit on the ground engines running and going nowhere.
I doubt they leave the engines and even if they did leave them idling it’s better than flying
I’d assume there has to be some engine use for electricity generation, climate control, etc. even when grounded.
Burning fuel to no effect is better than burning fuel to get somewhere? A quick search suggests a 747 burns 5 gallons per mile. An idling engine achieving nothing is burning infinity gallons per mile. Which if you check the number line you’ll find is slightly higher.
Only if you do it per mile. Not if you do it as gallons burned.
Also 0/1 isn’t infinity it’s undefined.
You probably meant 1 / 0.
0 / 1 is 0.
You’re right about one thing: 1/0 = inf is sloppy and lazy. The better way to write it is: the limit as x approaches zero of 1/x is infinity.
You require more fuel to move compared to fuel consumption while running idle.
Yes, but if the plane isn’t going to move then there’s no point it burning fuel.
Sure. But it’s still less.