Now this is environmentalism
Every time I read a story about some billionaire getting angry about their private jets being tracked I recall a part of the Kim Stanley Robinson novel Ministry for the Future, a (very) near-future tale about how a few global climate catastrophes wreak such havoc that regular people start taking extreme measures – for example randomly shooting down passenger aircraft for months, causing the collapse of the air travel industry. I have to imagine that the 1%ers are thinking about that too now.
That book is a not-so-covert manifesto, I swear.
In the book, I noticed upon re-reading – it was always the biggest polluters (usually, the richest of the rich) that had unfortunate drone-strikes while flying.
Not the electric planes. No commuter planes. Straight up 1%-er targets.
B admits to it later on in the book, when they hint B might be Mother.
I would say it is an okay book. It’s a little too optimistic on the human side which his books all tend to be. It’s worth a read though of only to give some idea of possibilities.
“optimistic” just above was talking about how terrorists were shooting planes out of the sky killing people
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private planes, yachts, private chefs, etc seem like such an obscene amount of luxury it shouldn’t be allowed somehow. public services would be better if the wealthy were forced to use them, then they might actually care about the constant shittifying of everything
“Private planes” may refer to a Piper Cub. It’s expensive, but in some areas may make sense, and fits under a hobby. Some people dream of piloting.
“Yachts” may refer to a motorboat. Or a yacht as in “motorboat with one sail”. It’s expensive, but very often honestly worked for. Some people dream of yachting.
I’m just informing you of cases you clearly didn’t think about.
I was just looking at planes this week, can get an experimental one seater for like $30k.
I need the link.
(But - yes. I was still thinking of “real” planes, but I suppose there may be something flying for that cost. If you don’t mean a glider.)
Getting a private pilots license is a lot cheaper than I thought once I started researching it. The total cost of everything (school/instructor time/flight hours) seemed to average around 15k. Instead of buying a new car for 40k you could probably reasonably afford a pilots license and a plane share with a couple other people.
Apparently more people here agree than disagree.
I think owning a small plane is fine. I’m not officially against owning a larger plane… Idk…
Aviation makes up about 2% of global CO2 emissions which is a lot but also not a lot. It’s not the smaller planes, it’s all of the passenger and cargo jets (mostly).
IIRC the biggest problem with that 2% is it’s already in the upper atmosphere. Don’t have a source for that though.
Here’s a source for your comment btw:
https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
which links to this paper (direct 296 kB pdf download link):
https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_CO2-commercl-aviation-2018_20190918.pdf
and aCKSHUALLYY it’s 1.9%
Thank you! While reducing CO2 is important, harping on private planes isn’t going to make a change.
it’s kind of a stretch, yeah, but it just feels so gross, in that same way a yacht or plane does, seeing tiktok vids of someone laboriously crafting this gorgeous, perfect meal for one (1) fucking middle-CEO-partner-twat and his family. if you make enough to afford something like that, get fucked, you definitely don’t work hard enough to deserve it.
it’s probably a way easier shift for the chef than a restaurant dinner rush, which is great, but it’s just…such an obscenity to think some have access to this sort of luxury because they shook the right hands at the business office / were born into generational wealth.
Oh no!
Anyway…
they exploited a vulnerability in the airport’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system
CRM, No surprise 🫠
