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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So going green is now en vogue.  You aren't progressive, open minded, and concious unless you care about the planet. How then do you explain the massive demand then for travel and leisure?  Taking a single flight burns nearly as much fossil fuel as you'd emit from an entire year's worth of driving. Then there is so much taxing consumption on the planet for water, land, pollution etc. all related to tourism and travel.  The people who constantly talk the most about going green probably do things like buy expensive Teslas and solar panels, yet are the same types who cannot help to show off how much they travel on social media.  How can one possibly be progressive on environmental issues and simultaneously travel the world or even far away in this country for the sole purpose of leisure? Makes no sense. Every trip you take burns massive amounts of fossil fuels and causes tons of waste. [/quote]

It's true that flying burns huge amounts of fossil fuels, but is the idea here that if you can't completely eliminate the problem, you should make no attempt at all to improve things? Seems to me that if the choice is "lots of carbon emissions from flights + other carbon emissions from daily household life" vs. "lots of carbon emissions from flights + slightly less carbon emissions from daily household life," then option 2 is still better, even if option 3, "no flights + less carbon emission from daily life" would be even better.

Hard to judge the rest of your post, but I'd be interested in seeing some data to support the notion that the people who care most about the environment are also the people who travel most. Might be true! Not sure you've demonstrated that at all![/quote]

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