Until we end the aviation industry, it means society is not treating irreversible planetary climate breakdown like the emergency it is. When will people be ready to accept this? How many more catastrophic climate disasters will it take? How much more planetary heating locked in?
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1478741867013578753
As always, this tweet will divide people who understand what an emergency we're in, and people who still refuse to accept. Five or ten years from now, those of you who feel furious at me for questioning your flying privilege, I think you too will understand.
I'm not suggesting that people voluntarily giving up flying is a solution. It's a good thing to do, because it helps shift culture, but it's not a solution because few will do it. Once we pass the cultural tipping point into #EmergencyMode though, flying will ramp down via policy
If we pass that cultural tipping point into climate #EmergencyMode that is. Unfortunately, human culture is so malleable and irrational, and subject to media/ideological/corporate influence that there's no guarantee. We need to fight for #EmergencyMode.
I think the time to be coy about what really needs to happen has long since passed. We need to very quickly learn to be happy on Earth with much less energy. Because the alternative is far worse.
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