[tornato7]

This is a timely comment because I just booked a trip to New Zealand with a stop at Franz Josef and didn't realize it could only be accessed by helicopter. Are there any other glaciers around there that can be accessed via hike?

[arbitrary_name]

It seems somewhat ironic to travel 1000s of miles by plane to NZ, with all the attendant climate impacts, and not be able to see the glacier due to those impacts...

[oh_sigh]

SFO->CHC->SFO is about ~2000kg of CO2 per person[0], compared to the average American yearly emissions of 15,000 kg[1]

Rural folk emit about 20% more CO2[2] than city dwellers in the US, so if OP lives in a city, even flying to NZ and back once a year puts him at less climate impact than an average rural American.

[0] https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html#:~:text=CO2%20emis....

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049662/fossil-us-carbon....

[2]https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/02/the-unexpected-....

[danielheath]

2000kg is also much more than the annual per capita co2 budget if we’re to have any hope of maintaining a world with a reliable food supply (even in wealthy countries), let alone the other problems that are coming (infrastructure destruction via extreme weather, etc).

[hunter-gatherer]

OP will still be emitting CO2 throughout the year, no? So with your numbers this is still 2000kg more. As parent commenter said, still ironic.

[chickenchicken]

Because the Americans are the number one polluters regarding CO2.

[Reason077]

Strictly speaking this is not true. Canada, Australia, and some of the gulf states have worse CO2 emissions per capita than the United States.

On the basis of total CO2 emissions, the USA is the second worst, but is far behind China.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

[defrost]

> Strictly speaking this is not true. Canada, Australia, and some of the gulf states have worse CO2 emissions per capita than the United States.

By personal lifestyle or by dint of providing resources to the hungry hungry hippos of the world?

Outside of the Sheik Yerbouti's the average gulf citizen lives a sparse life - the region has high emissions due to fossil fuel extraction to supply mostly elsewhere.

Australia is an open pit mine; one state with ~2 million people and an area 3x that of Texas mines and exports 16x more iron ore per annum than peak annual mining in the entire USofA - the energy draw required to supply the world with steel isn't a per capita energy use of the Purnululu People *. Perhaps there's an issue with accounting?

China, again, has been playing catch up with the USofA, much of it's climb in energy use was due to outsourced US supply for an exuberence of consummerism.

We've known where fossil fuel use was headed since the 1970s and still the west fell for the Koch brand of greed is good, burn more coal baby, public transport sucks, BuyMore on ConsumerHoliday propaganda - this set the tone for the world to follow as an aspiration goal and shucking responsibility for outsourcing carbon consumption isn't a great look.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmKxmxk6Gas