Originally Posted by
FFMAN
Wrong.
Just for a bit of context - the Greta generation loves its social media. Nothing sums them up better than turning up at some protest and posting a picture to Insta (or whatever) with some pouting snowflakes under '#saving the planet' or some such crap. Or simply posting a meaningless photo of a plate of food to the cloud. So where is 'the cloud'? The cloud is a massive network of physical data warehouses that use VAST amounts of energy. Already some estimates put the global CO2 contribution from the cloud at more than 4% and growing exponentially. Aviation's 2% seems modest by comparision....and why does no-one mention the contribution from the world's shipping fleets that not only emit CO2 but also filthy black soot and other noxious fumes as well? This doesn't even include dumping vitually all their crap overboard or washing out empty tanks whilst out of sight on the high seas.
Frankly aviation's 'sins' are relatively light weight compared to some of man's other activities.
Excessive CO2 emissions come from multiple sources, aviation is one, another big one in the shipping sector is cruising, that becomes ever more popular. Fact is that as Tesco says "every little helps", hammering aviation on it's own achieves little, reducing our consumption habit generally (stopping buying "stuff" and "gifts" that are little real value in the scheme of things) would be a great step forward, however in a world that whole MO is increasing growth there is absolutely no hope of that happening.
Perhaps Covid 19 may shock the world into realising there's more to life than consumption and economic growth. Doubt it though.
I am, by the way, well outside of the "Greta generation" and certainly don't use Instagram or any of the other social media platforms.