A man’s lonely fight to ban private jets
Here&#x27;s one thing that i don&#x27;t get about the climate change movement. It would seem that the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution are developing nations that use carbon based energy (ie coal plants in China, Russia, India, etc).<p>With that said it seems that the only real solution would be to convince these countries to adopt greener energy (which is unlikely to happen for a variety of reasons) which leads me to ask: is anything else really making a difference?<p>We can talk about adopting plant based diets, talk about banning private jets and mandating electric cars, there&#x27;s lot of things that we can do, but the question is any of that even going to matter when the vast majority of global warming is contributed to by other nations that we have no control over.<p>Furthermore I think we have to weigh our sacrifices against the impact. If were going to ban something like private jets, there better be a real impact. What I see now though is, if we ban private jets for example, we will bear the cost of that ban without any of the associated green benefits because again, the developing nations with their coal plants are pumping out exponentially more greenhouse gasses than any private jet would.<p>My conclusion is rather cynical but I don&#x27;t see why we should be making sacrifices, when none of those sacrifices lead to quantifiable results. And what I particularly don&#x27;t like now is that we seem to be making policy not on what will make a quantifiable difference in climate, but rather what will make us feel like we&#x27;re making an impact. It&#x27;s really a more broad issue than that, we as a society seem to have ceased trying to actually solve problems, rather we &quot;solve&quot; them by doing something that makes us feel good, regardless of whether than thing actually has any real impact.