Trivia! Guess which one of these things I've done on one of the ~300 flights I've taken over the last five years...
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Note that I've not done either of those things, so I have no moral high ground here...
But there's s further problem which is that choosing not to take a flight doesn't stop the plane, and doesn't cancel the route, and it needs a huge amount of amortization before any individuals' action actually reduces the number of planes in constant operation...
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Maybe we could be satisfied knowing that the airlines are making smaller profits. But even that isn't a clearly-positive outcome: those airlines may keep older, more-polluting aircraft in operation for longer because they can't afford newer, cleaner jets...
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And if you try to analyse the impact of individual responsibility on reducing emissions, it's really unclear what difference it makes at all, unless you have a massive shift in the behaviour of a lot of people.
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