Analysis: UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion - Carbon Brief
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A forest twice the size of Greater London would need to be planted in the...
  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30·
    6 个月前

    Some day I’d like to hear about a forest twice the size of London getting planted without there being a gigantic airport built.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    221·
    6 个月前

    Increasing airport size as a way to stimulate economic growth seems like dated thinking to me. Flights are increasingly not used for business travel as communications technology has advanced. All you’re really doing is trying to maintain hub status for London which doesn’t drive economic activity outside of the airport industry.

    Heathrow needs a third runway as much as it needs a rollercoaster. A huge construction project, with all the emissions that brings, that paves over houses, green spaces and the M25 (on a bridge).

    Finally, I guess we can see why Labour whipped against the environment bill last week.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      61·
      6 个月前

      if only there was some painfully obvious and immortal way to stimulate economic growth, like idk… building housing and factories with public transport connecting the two…

      oh right shit i forgot, that would annoy the real estate investors in london, can’t do that.

  • BrightCandle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 个月前

    The level of production of CO2 is so vast that planting trees is not going to do anything meaningful. We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately and work on viable scalable CO2 removal and storage methods with urgency.

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      5 个月前

      We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately

      Can I recommend a new law requiring billionaires the travel only by trebuchet. May solve more issues then just CO2

  • JohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    6 个月前

    The depth of climate crisis denial is depressing. We should be cutting drastically down on flying. We should be cutting drastically down on miles driven in cars. Nope, none of that.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    6 个月前

    The rationale of electric planes is unhinged. “We’re going to plan to expend energy as if future technology has already been implemented”.

    • kralk@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      6 个月前

      Straight out of the David Cameron “carbon capture” playbook

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      31·
      6 个月前

      An electric plane will expend similar levels of energy to a jet plane.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        6 个月前

        That’s beside my point, considering that all commercial electric aircraft being developed are basically all at or near the “announced plans to develop” stage and they’re already talking about expanding airports using these erstwhile emissions savings as a rationale. It would be more honest to say they don’t actually give a damn about the climate.