Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
2.5% eh? We should all immediately stop flying... This is outrageous. Just imagine, 2.5%!!<p>But on a more serious note, this article is again wrong, like so many others about climate change. Being a combination of clickbait and false assumptions, it fails to miss the point entirely that first, 2.5% are irrelevant, but also that it makes no sense whatsoever to tackle this now. The technology is just not there yet.<p>What we urgently NEED to do is invest HUGE amounts of money into two key technologies. One is batteries. Make them as small, lightweight and efficient as possible. Pretty much everything depends on that and there has been no notable breakthrough in like forever... Without &quot;super&quot; batteries, we can kiss &quot;preventing climate change&quot; goodbye.<p>Another one is sucking the carbon out of the atmosphere. And no, we DON&#x27;T need to reduce our carbon emission, one of the key mistakes people make when it comes to climate change. What we need to do is to suck out more than we put in. There is no way in hell that 200 countries in the world agree on being C02 neutral. The leading countries need to suck the shit back out, that is the only way forward.<p>As for all the people who preach changing the entire world by reducing emissions... I mean, I get you are very naive, but seriously: It&#x27;s not gonna happen. It is cute to have girl sail through the Atlantic to make so pep talk at congress. But it is also really meaningless. This is not the way the world will change. It never has. Politicians can&#x27;t agree on the color of shit within their own country, not to mention between them.<p>The only way to avoid catastrophe is to outpace climate change with innovation. The world is not going to sacrifice living standards until they all drown in their own filth.