Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
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Banning Private Jets
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Someone’s been letting SUV tyres down in the crowded narrow streets in the area of a local primary school near me. I fully support this campaign.
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SUVs make up more than 40% of new cars sold in the UK – while fully electric vehicles account for less than 2%
For fuck's sake. Unless they have some vaguely justifiable reason for buying these ridiculous polluting status symbols, they should tax the fuck out of them. People driving them around crowded city streets should be made to feel as uncomfortable as people wearing fur. SUVs make up more than...
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Farnborough; there are plans to increase the number of flights............................
to 70,000 private jets flights a year
Average number of passengers 2.5
40% of flights are empty
each passenger is between 20 and 40 x more polluting than those on a commercial aircraft
www.theguardian.com
shocking.
to 70,000 private jets flights a year
Average number of passengers 2.5
40% of flights are empty
each passenger is between 20 and 40 x more polluting than those on a commercial aircraft
Farnborough airport’s biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue
UK’s busiest private jet airfield announced plans to double weekend flights weeks after campaign group chair received injunction
shocking.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
A very good friend lives in Knaphill, on the final approach to Farnborough, when we crash at his on a Saturday we are woken on Sunday by a constant stream of jets coming in to land, reminds me of living in Hounslow, they are that frequent. Got me thinking why are so many people arriving at 8-10am on a Sunday? Seems that nearly all of them will be empty and being positioned to take people away from there later in the day, a few will have come in from the Americas, but something stupid like 95% of them at that time are totally empty and will have flown in from all over Europe.
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8ball
Decolonise colons!
Farnborough; there are plans to increase the number of flights............................
to 70,000 private jets flights a year
Average number of passengers 2.5
40% of flights are empty
each passenger is between 20 and 40 x more polluting than those on a commercial aircraft
Farnborough airport’s biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue
UK’s busiest private jet airfield announced plans to double weekend flights weeks after campaign group chair received injunction
shocking.
But these are wealth creators - not the little people.
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Think of how much more money they would have if they used scheduled, commercial airlines. You do not get rich or richer by spending money, at least not unnecessarily.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
They'd get there late, or be further from where they need to be, or be insufficiently pampered / powdered / fellated.
Will somebody PLEASE think of the wealth creators?!!
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
People don't travel by private jet to create wealth, they do it to avoid mixing with the Great Unwashed be it those in economy or even the pretend rich in business. It's like Louis XIV moving from the Louvre to Versailles so he didn't have to smell the whiff of peons wafting over his palace walls.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I expect most of the people on this thread wanting to ban private jets will co-incidentally think that travel modes that they like to use should be just below the bannable threshold.
There are frequent boasts on u75 about travelling business class or first class on airlines - something that significantly worsens emissions per passenger-km compared to flying in economy class which is already very harmful.
And we know that many u75 posters choose to travel by car to avoid mixing with the great unwashed.
Anyway, I would advocate that we ban everything above the 50g mark on this graph.
There are frequent boasts on u75 about travelling business class or first class on airlines - something that significantly worsens emissions per passenger-km compared to flying in economy class which is already very harmful.
And we know that many u75 posters choose to travel by car to avoid mixing with the great unwashed.
Anyway, I would advocate that we ban everything above the 50g mark on this graph.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
See reasons 2 and 7 - these people are unsung heroes!.
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8ball
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Where did you find that graph, incidentally?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Should we give up flying for the sake of the climate?
For those of us that take regular holidays abroad and travel on business, flying makes up a considerable chunk of our carbon footprint, but are there ways of reducing those emissions?
www.bbc.com
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Should we give up flying for the sake of the climate?
For those of us that take regular holidays abroad and travel on business, flying makes up a considerable chunk of our carbon footprint, but are there ways of reducing those emissions?
Thanks.
We need to go everywhere on international trains, like in that film.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
And u75 could be run as a carrier pigeon service.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That's just self-justifying bollocks isn't it? An attempt to kid themselves they're not being rich snobs.See reasons 2 and 7 - these people are unsung heroes!.
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TBH if I was a billionaire then I would totally fly everywhere by private jet rather than cattle class with the grubby peasants. But I like to think I would be totally honest about it.
"Well screw you poors! I'm flying private because I am rich and influential, eat your hearts out plebs!"
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
If we just want to reduce CO2 per se we could ban buses, coaches and trains. If cars were banned, car drivers would switch to buses and trains. Whereas if buses and trains were banned the people currently using them would be forced to walk everywhere reducing their CO2 footprint to nil.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
People aren’t perpetual motion machines. Their carbon footprint would depend on what they are eating.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Well, you can count yourself out of the Selfless Humble Billionaires Club.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Yeah but that would be a methane and hydrogen sulfide footprint rather than a C02 one, so long as they did the walking outdoors we'll be fine.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
And the CO2 and water vapour that they’re breathing out (which would be the bulk of it).
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
The other thing about Farnbourgh and the wankers that run it is they grabbed a huge slice of airspace that used to be available for everyone ( gliders, microlights, light aircraft) for their business jet customers. They took more than, say Norwich airport which uses theirs’s for scheduled flights, lots of holiday flights in the summer and most of the southern North Sea helicopter traffic.
It means that people who want to fly in the SE have a much harder time now. But as long as some trust fund kid can be at their ski chalet in Valdezere 20 minutes quicker who cares…
It means that people who want to fly in the SE have a much harder time now. But as long as some trust fund kid can be at their ski chalet in Valdezere 20 minutes quicker who cares…
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One of the worst things about Farnborough is the international arms fairs held there, but I digress.
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Let's do away with cars altogether, they are just so yesterday. Every home really should have it's own aircraft hanger or two or three
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A proper, progressive carbon tax is needed.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Most people will look at that and think how much space it all takes up, if people want to have private planes. And some might ponder upon how this just wouldn't work if everyone did it and we designed the entirety of the built environment to facilitate it. But it's just an exaggerated version of what's already true of private car ownership.Let's do away with cars altogether, they are just so yesterday. Every home really should have it's own aircraft hanger or two or three
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