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by melling 1126 days ago
Not sure how they come up with the numbers for tourism. 100,000 flights a day, every day of the year add up to 2-2.5% of emissions for example.

I suppose if you take a gas powered taxi, stay in a hotel that gets energy from fossil fuels, buy souvenirs that are made in factories that use fossil fuels, …

Are you getting the point?

If you don’t take a trip and stay home with the heat and lights on, drive your gas car, buy other things from other factories powered by fossil fuel, …

Fix the root of the problem and many of the issues go away.

Then we can stop having these stupid conversations. As was explained half a century ago when the world population was half of today’s 8 billion: “sacrificing won’t fix the problem”