Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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Spain bans short-haul flights where you can take a train (www.euronews.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by activistPnk to c/solarpunktravel

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⚠ Link #enshitification warning: #euronews has a forced agreement type of popup in some browsers (TB). I suggest either Ungoogled Chromium or lynx. Lynx warns “bad html” but it renders fine.

This is being cross-posted to several places so I won’t bother to list them here.. but there are a few discussions on this if you look around.

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[–] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

10% and 0.06% are ridiculously far apart, and someone is wildly wrong (or disingenuous) if the values are relative to the same metric. Google tells me (via statista) that Spain produced 261x10^6 tons of CO2 in 2022. The article says a potential savings of 300x10^3 tons from 5000 flight, which is 0.12%.