I have a close family member who flys airliners. He routinely laments having to burn up thousands of pounds of fuel on the ramp to adjust changes to the landing weight projections by dispatch and from over fueling. The amount of waste in a single error (and they are not that infrequent) is enough to heat my house for a year… and I live within 200 miles of the arctic circle. I mean, burning 1000 gallons of fancy diesel once in a while is a rounding error for jetliner operations, but still, it’s absurd that that is the best solution.
I don't get why people sometimes talk as if it's just large corporations that contributed to emissions.
It all makes a difference. There's no doubt that individual consumption contributes a lot to global emissions. Like large houses that use a lot of material, cement etc and cost a lot to heat and cool.
And those large corporations exist to serve customers. It's not like we could simply get rid of them.
But we obviously need to also look at the ways that we can work together to save emissions where possible.
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It all makes a difference. There's no doubt that individual consumption contributes a lot to global emissions. Like large houses that use a lot of material, cement etc and cost a lot to heat and cool.
And those large corporations exist to serve customers. It's not like we could simply get rid of them.
But we obviously need to also look at the ways that we can work together to save emissions where possible.
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Not to disagree that flying is very CO2 intensive, but it's not like the airline is burning fuel for fun. The passengers paid them to do it
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