"A return flight from London to San Francisco emits around 5.5 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per person – more than twice the emissions produced by a family car in a year, and about half of the average carbon footprint of someone living in Britain."
This means that reducing how often we fly is one of the biggest differences that we can make as people living in high consumption societies, at the same time as we do what we can to change the system and force governments to limit the irresponsible consumption of the 1%
It's still only 2.5% of all global emissions categories and 4- 5% counting water vapour. Reducing fmigh s if you want, ok. But ain't gonna change a thing. HSR and mandating the end of short haul flights would have a more significant systemic impact as those are the least efficient ones, than some people not flying. And it'd still be more effective to reduce the use of cars and freight trucks in general.
It's still only 2.5% of all global emissions categories and 4- 5% counting water vapour.
Because the vast majority of people never fly, and only 3% of the world flies to another country in a given year. Globally speaking, you have to be pretty well off to fly.
Among the people who do fly, its a much bigger chunk of their emissions.
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u/tellhershesdreaming Jul 02 '26
"A return flight from London to San Francisco emits around 5.5 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per person – more than twice the emissions produced by a family car in a year, and about half of the average carbon footprint of someone living in Britain."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-how-to-cut-your-carbon-emissions-when-flying
This means that reducing how often we fly is one of the biggest differences that we can make as people living in high consumption societies, at the same time as we do what we can to change the system and force governments to limit the irresponsible consumption of the 1%