How does flying compare to driving in CO2e/passenger/km?
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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That varies a lot. People will often choose a train, or EV, or to not travel at all when they can't fly.
In general, the impact of discouraging air travel is to lower emissions.
What I'm trying to say is we should apply the same discouragements to driving.
Denmark has among the highest car registration taxes in the world and is generally doing fairly well in that. We also have with EVs a very good replacment for combustion engine cars with much lower emissions, but no comparable commercially somewhat viable alternative for flying.
Paris has done an amazing job of getting people out of cars recently, and deserves emulation on that score
It's only like 15 dollars sadly. It needs to be like 500
So only rich people get to travel the world?
You can travel the world without flying.
Only the rich has the luxury to take off enough time, to travel the world, without flying.
I imagine a world without rich people OR flying