Do you believe that Climate Change is bigger than for example the Corona virus? [...]
Name me the top ten things that you sacrificed for Corona. [...]
Name me the top ten things you have sacrificed for Climate Change. [...]
Andri Snær Magnason in The Europeans podcast: Using grandma to make people cry about climate change (2024-10-03)
Frequent-flying “‘super emitters” who represent just 1% of the world’s population caused half of aviation’s carbon emissions in 2018, according to a study.
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Only 11% of the world’s population took a flight in 2018 and 4% flew abroad.
The Guardian: 1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions – study
So for instance, if your laptop is made in China, your shoes in Indonesia, your jeans in Bangladesh, your jacket in India, your coffee in Kenya, your smartphone in South Korea and your beef in Brazil — then basically none of that will appear as emissions within the EU. And a short train ride from Cologne to Aachen will result in more emissions that will be counted as EU’s responsibility than a flight to Buenos Aires or Bangkok and back again.
A computing-research conference is "a journal that meets in a hotel."
