Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 27. May 2020, 18:39

Thanks, Adis, for initiating this little research. We should try to make a bit publicity for it...

I will link it to other issues which might fit to this!

Bye, Harry

Quote from Duy Na Kontas on 3. November 2020, 14:51

By protecting and restoring nature and its ecosystems, we protect and restore ourselves. This situation with the corona virus should change our perception about the nature and ecosystem.

Quote from Adis Krdzalic on 15. February 2021, 21:59

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56042029

Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 11. March 2021, 15:56

Dear Adis, thanks a lot, this article you metion is worth to quote:

Bill Gates: Solving Covid easy compared with climate  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56042029

By Justin Rowlatt

One issue Gates talks about is...

Private jets permitted

Simply consuming less stuff - fewer flights, local food, less electricity and gas - won't solve the problem.

"India is going to build housing for their people, provide lighting at night, air conditioning to make conditions liveable," Mr Gates believes, so global demand will not reduce.

He argues political action is more important, demanding government do the right thing, and, using our voices as consumers, insisting the same of companies.

"If you buy an electric car, a hamburger made of a meat substitute, an electric heat pump for your home you are helping increase the production of these products and therefore helping drive prices down."

Mr Gates still enjoys the trappings of the billionaire lifestyle.

He uses private jets, but insists that they are powered by biofuels - aviation fuels made from plant products.

"I pay three times as much now for my aviation fuel, you know, over $7m [£5m] a year in all my offset spending."

And he has joined a £3bn bidding war to buy one of the world's largest private jet services companies, a business called Signature Aviation.

Is that appropriate when you've just written a book telling the world how to avoid a climate disaster?

"I don't think getting rid of flying would make sense," he replies. "That type of brute force technique won't get us there."

He says the answer has to be "a type of aviation fuel that doesn't cost much extra and is zero emission and that's got to be biofuels or electric fuels or perhaps using green hydrogen to power the plane".

 

My comment: Interestingly, this is something Paul Peeters, Professor Sustainable Transport and Tourism at Breda University of Applied Sciences, is arguing and doing research about. With the same price it won't be feasable, as aviation kerosine is heavily subsidized at the moment as there is not tax at all on it...