ecoTrain QOTW - Are "eco-warriors" hypocrites for flying ?

over 4 years ago

On the question of the week of ecoTrain:

https://steempeak.com/ecotrain/@ecotrain/ecotrain-qotw-are-eco-warriors-hypocrites-for-flying-join-in

What a great and hardhitting question.
It's like that question "If you're against technology why do you use a cellphone ?"

I think that people will always try to evolve and in this world sometimes you have to move out of your country or travel to present work / studies in order to make money, meaning forcibly moving out of our confort zone. But it is a question of principles and ethics, anyone is free to try and do the best for themselves and others, it is up to each one of us to weight it out in our personal lives.

I don't consider that i take a full "eco-warrior" lifestyle, but i won't be flying anytime soon, as i don't need it and as my personal boycott to the airline industry (altough there are other industries involved of course), i still use petrol in several forms...

There is alot of CO2 dumped with the flying of planes but there are alot worse chemicals involved in airlines in general. My opinion in general is that alot of the climate change discourse and taxes are an hypocrisy specially taking in account that there are huge geoengineering programs running for decades now.

https://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_16_05_30_en.html?infocentre