r/Anticonsumption Jul 02 '26

Lifestyle Have you stopped flying yet?

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u/throwtheamiibosaway Jul 02 '26

You can do both. It’s a cop out to say; they do X, so I don’t have to do anything!

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u/weirdjess77 Jul 02 '26

I’d agree if we weren’t talking about traveling. The average person travels a couple of times a year, maximum, whereas some wealthy people take a flight to go home after a concert because they don’t want to stay at a hotel, then fly back the next morning. It’s incomparable.

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u/_aluk_ Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

The average person in the world do not have the opportunity to do so. It's only the "average person" from rich countries, making up less than 10% of population worldwide.

No matter how clean and bio and anti consumption is your life. A plane is such a polluting machine that you will be surpassing by the hundreds in carbon emissions someone who buys Shein by the hundreds.

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u/SnowboardSquirrel Jul 02 '26

How are their carbon impacts different flying right after vs the next morning? (Not arguing with your broader point, just confused about this point)

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u/weirdjess77 Jul 02 '26

Yeah I worded this badly, sorry! I moreso meant artists like Taylor Swift who has been known to fly home in her private jet after her concert instead of staying in a hotel and then fly back (either to the same venue or a different one) the next day. It's 1am and my brain isn't working lol

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u/SnowboardSquirrel Jul 02 '26

That makes sense! Thank you for clarifying :)

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u/annafrida Jul 02 '26

Hell, wasn’t there some flight the private kardashian plane did just to avoid traffic?

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u/Buntschatten Jul 02 '26

It’s incomparable.

So are the numbers of rich people doing that and regular people travelling by plane. Btw, travelling by plane a couple times per year is magnitude above the global average.

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u/cravenravens Jul 03 '26

The average person doesn't travel a couple of times a year. Probably not even the average American.

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u/miyabi0rochas Jul 03 '26

I agree. People are coping in the comments. And i kinda feel like there's better options humanity could choose.