As the article says, "air travel accounts for about 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions". It is responsible for ~5% of climate change, according to the IPCC. If we build a lot of nuclear power plants, we can still eat steak and fly all we want. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/climate/air-travel-emissions.html …
My point is that the climate situation is an emergency and that if you want to treat it as such, you have to focus on the actual major contributors. It's like telling someone with crippling medical bills to stop going to the cinema to save money
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I agree: the climate situation is an emergency and if you want to treat it as such, you have to focus on all the actual major contributors. Do you genuinely think 5% and rapidly increasing isn't a significant fraction? It's more than the emissions of every G8 country except US.
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I think the analogy is poor, but even so: it looks like fees/admissions of all kinds are approximately 1% of all household budgets in the US, and less for lower income families, an order of magnitude less than your environmental analog. https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-4/movies-music-sports-entertainment-spending.htm …
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