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After 3,5 years of studying how emissions from air travel can be reduced, particularly in academia, it's finally time to share my #flyingless dissertation: shorturl.at/oEHL3 I will summarize some points in this thread.👇
In a nutshell, emissions from academic air travel should be reduced because 1) flying is one of academia's largest harmful contributions to climate change, and 2) aviation will not be carbon neutral in the near future.
But where to start? Although individuals take flights, these decisions happen in the context of norms and structures in academia and society. 
I've got several creative climate action projects. They're making a difference, but they're too much to do on my own. So I have teams.
If you'd like to volunteer your skills to move the needle on climate, my DMs are open.
If you'd like to volunteer your skills to move the needle on climate, my DMs are open.
noflyclimatesci.org needs a person or two to help improve the content - e.g. resources, media, and especially reaching out to universities and other institutions who are beginning to support #FlyingLess, and adding them to the site.
EarthHero.org, an app to empower users to reduce emissions, shift culture, and join the movement. We already have an amazing team of 15 volunteers, but our bottleneck is app development. We also need web dev and translators. We'll likely soon have funding. @EarthHeroOrg
Holy f!&$%# talking on national radio is nerve-wracking...
(especially when your fellow radio guests are climate gurus @KHayhoe and @KenCaldeira!)
Blanked a few times there, but fun discussion nonetheless.
There’s so much more to say about this, so thread coming soon...
(especially when your fellow radio guests are climate gurus @KHayhoe and @KenCaldeira!)
Blanked a few times there, but fun discussion nonetheless.
There’s so much more to say about this, so thread coming soon...
@KHayhoe @KenCaldeira OK, in the same vain as my previous thread “Should I cut out meat and dairy for the climate?” (bit.ly/2TJQh2l), it seems like the time is now right for a NEW THREAD:
“Should I stop flying for the climate?”
Here're my 2 cents... BUCKLE UP!
“Should I stop flying for the climate?”
Here're my 2 cents... BUCKLE UP!
@KHayhoe @KenCaldeira 1/ First, let’s acknowledge (own?) some ‘problems’ with #FlyingLess. As @drvox implies in this long thread, an individual's decision to fly will add an INFINITESSIMALLY SMALL amount of CO2 to the atmosphere (akin to adding a pebble of sand to a beach):
bit.ly/33M5PqK
bit.ly/33M5PqK
Flying will be a Major Source of our Global Warming Problems and Is Currently a Great Example for Climate Injustice – so Let‘s Put our Energies here Before it‘s Too Late!
A replik #Thread @SasjaBeslik medium.com/@sasjasocial/f… @transenv @flyingless @Fridays4future @GretaThunberg
A replik #Thread @SasjaBeslik medium.com/@sasjasocial/f… @transenv @flyingless @Fridays4future @GretaThunberg
Let‘s start this thread with the points we agree on @SasjaBeslik:
1 Global warming is a systemic problem and should be addressed first and foremost on a systemic level. Oil companies, airlines, governments and a profit orientated financial and economic system are responsible for the destruction of our planet and for the injustice related to it.
While billionaires & so called liberalism try to guilt consumers putting the responsibility of any change on our shoulders...
It is tempting to reply that change can ONLY come through political action targeting those corporations & discount individual actions.
Disagreeing thread
It is tempting to reply that change can ONLY come through political action targeting those corporations & discount individual actions.
Disagreeing thread
2 First: yes, fossil fuel billionaires are cynical monsters who have spent billions in lobbying & spreading doubts to torch the planet without being disturbed - and to receive massive state subsidies doing that. They should be sued, dismantled & held accountable. Absolutely!
3 Order matters here. This comes first. This is the only way to reply to those billionaires' strategy (as pointed by @MichaelEMann ) to blind us by making us obsessed with all "sacrifices" pathing the way to decarbonize our society. So how to look at "individual actions" then?
I started (unknowingly) on a path to dramatic carbon reduction on Jan 1, 2017, when I started biking to work, walking kids to school. Carbon reduction became addictive, and more deeply nourishing than I ever thought possible. #myfirststep Thread.
Biking to work is a carbon pittance, I know. But it opened my eyes to structural barriers, so I became the Traffic Chair for my neighborhood board and have become a fixture down at City Hall on bike/ped/multimodal safety in Atlanta. I had NEVER been to City Hall in 14yrs prior!
And my engagement didn’t stop there - I was just getting started! I started tracking my family’s energy and water bills on a graph, bought all LEDs for my house, my parent’s house, and my sister’s house. I insulated all the windows and doors and external outlet boxes.
