• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    Private planes suck, but it’s plastic straws levels compared to other important changes.

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      One private flight is about the same amount of carbon as the average person produces in a year. That’s quite a bit more significant than straws.

      As for the “important changes” part - don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We unfortunately still rely on the major polluters so it’s harder to dismantle…but private jets? Those only help the 1% and the 1% has enough already

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          Everything is just a fraction of the total.
          Private jets are an insane amount of unnecessary pollution by a very few people.

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          Any reason you chose to provide that statistic but not one about the environmental impact straws?

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        Yeah look that’s a fair take.

        But we’re also talking about the emissions of a small cities worth of people. Not great to have, but also not the battle to get bogged down on.

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          But it’s an easy one to do something about so there’s not much bogging down happening. I’d rather a small change now than a “promised” change in 20 years