One of the stories I try to follow because the MSM barely takes notice is the yearly meeting at Davos Switzerland of the 3,000 or so wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet. Even the MSM admits that it is "more than a thousand" private jets. Naturally, since our true ruling class -- the Davos elite, is under no circumstances going to give up flying, we are regularly told that "flying doesn't matter much" for the supposed scourge of Global Warming -- which is sort of like saying "where you dump sewage doesn't matter much" (if it is YOUR yard, or the intake to YOUR cities water supply, does location matter?).
Apparently, so it is with jet travel ...
Of course "50x" would be for travelling on commercial jets, where the cost is spread over a couple hundred people. As anyone knows from driving, speed costs a lot -- and the private jets go as fast as they can because their owners are REALLY important! -- just ask them. The best way to go fast is to go high, which is of course a worse place to dump your carbon. let's just say that each of those global elites are doing as much carbon damage as 50x200 driving 20k miles or so (there and back)! So like 10,000 people driving 20k miles x 1,500 or so (jets) -- eg, the carbon footprint of 150,000 people driving 20k miles a year spent on just one trip for our oh so concerned about the warming "crisis" elites!
... if we focus just on the impact over the next five years, then planes currently account for more global warming than all the cars on the world's roads – a stark reversal of the usual comparison. Per passenger mile, things are even more marked: flying turns out to be on average 50 times worse than driving in terms of a five-year warming impact.
But never mind. THEIR world is in CRISIS! The top 8 of them have more wealth than the botton half wealth holders on the planet -- however, the DAVOS people are in CRISIS!
It was a sub zero weekend here in Iowa flyover country USA. We spent a good portion of the weekend taking part in a fishing tournament with 150 other folks, nary a bit of evidence of a "crisis" of any sort in sight. Current outside temp, -9 degrees.
If you want to waste a little time of just how screwed up our "values" are -- remember this.
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