911 to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoPropublica reported on Nike’s extensive use of private jets. The company just made it harder to track them.www.propublica.orgexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1159arrow-down1external-linkPropublica reported on Nike’s extensive use of private jets. The company just made it harder to track them.www.propublica.org911 to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-22 months agoEverything is just a fraction of the total. Private jets are an insane amount of unnecessary pollution by a very few people.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·edit-22 months ago In 2022, most of the world’s fossil fuel carbon emissions came from coal (40 per cent), oil (32 per cent), natural gas (21 per cent) [1] No, there are a few very big things we can tackle literally this very second if we just had the global effort.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoApples and oranges very much? A private jet is a USE of energy. Coal is a SOURCE of energy.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·2 months agoRight so focusing on swapping off coal to renewables would solve two birds with one bush.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoNot when no airplanes use coal or renewables. And we can and should do both. We’re in crunch time.
minus-squareDarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoare you sure you don’t mean, “would get two birds stoned at once?”
minus-squareSendMePhotos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWhy do we use coal? I’m uninformed or ignorant.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoBecause it has a lot of energy that can be released by burning
Everything is just a fraction of the total.
Private jets are an insane amount of unnecessary pollution by a very few people.
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No, there are a few very big things we can tackle literally this very second if we just had the global effort.
Apples and oranges very much?
A private jet is a USE of energy.
Coal is a SOURCE of energy.
Right so focusing on swapping off coal to renewables would solve two birds with one bush.
Not when no airplanes use coal or renewables. And we can and should do both. We’re in crunch time.
are you sure you don’t mean, “would get two birds stoned at once?”
Why do we use coal? I’m uninformed or ignorant.
Because it has a lot of energy that can be released by burning
Don’t we have oil for that?
No.