[throwaway201999]

Have you ever drove to the local grocery?

If so, why didn’t you use a bicycle.

A car vs a bicycle seems to me to be way more extreme than an individual flying on a personal jet to a location a commercial jet can’t access (people forgot that there’s exists 10s of thousands of remote small airports private planes, not commercial, can fly too that might otherwise require an indivisible to fly commercial to the local major airport and then drive another few hours to get too)

[scepticalshrew]

Driving to your local grocery and flying private are orders (plural) of magnitude different in terms of carbon footprint. If your local grocery is 10km away, you'll save ~2.5kg of C02 if you cycle instead of drive[1]. If you fly for three hours, you'll save ~700kg of C02 if you choose to fly commercial instead of private[2]. I don't see how the _former_ is "way more extreme".

[1] https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/how-much-co2-does-cycli... [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/private...

[throwaway09412]

Many times a plane is the only mode of transportation. Eg flying over a body of water. Etc.

[scepticalshrew]

Yes, nobody is disagreeing with that, and in rare cases only private will be possible, but other greener options are almost always available. The greenest one usually being: not flying at all.