🔥911🔥@programming.dev to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoPropublica reported on Nike’s extensive use of private jets. The company just made it harder to track them.www.propublica.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkPropublica reported on Nike’s extensive use of private jets. The company just made it harder to track them.www.propublica.org🔥911🔥@programming.dev to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareSendMePhotos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoAirplane transportation contributes about 2% of global carbon emissions annually.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month 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-up0·edit-21 month 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-up0·1 month agoApples and oranges very much? A private jet is a USE of energy. Coal is a SOURCE of energy.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoRight so focusing on swapping off coal to renewables would solve two birds with one bush.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoNot when no airplanes use coal or renewables. And we can and should do both. We’re in crunch time.
minus-squareDarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoare you sure you don’t mean, “would get two birds stoned at once?”
minus-squareSendMePhotos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWhy do we use coal? I’m uninformed or ignorant.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoBecause it has a lot of energy that can be released by burning
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoAny reason you chose to provide that statistic but not one about the environmental impact straws?
Airplane transportation contributes about 2% of global carbon emissions annually.
Everything is just a fraction of the total.
Private jets are an insane amount of unnecessary pollution by a very few people.
[1]
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?
Any reason you chose to provide that statistic but not one about the environmental impact straws?