https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579475/aviation-emissions-cost-carbon-offsets-climate-change
It could take $1 trillion to try to counteract emissions from growing aviation demand.
Jan 31, 2023, 3:01 PM PST|8Comments/8New
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With business continuing as usual, climate pollution from aviation could nearly triple by 2050 as demand for air travel grows, according to a newstudypublished yesterday in the journalNature Sustainability. It would cost up to $1 trillion to try to remove enough of that pollution from the atmosphere to meet global climate goals — an untenable situation.
To put that enormous cost into context, the global airline industry only netted$26.4 billion in profitsin 2019 before the covid pandemic curbed travel. And even if airlines can pay to remove all their emissions from the atmosphere, that’s still not guaranteed to slow climate change. While carbon offsets — paying to…
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The whole climate thing just appears to be too far gone to fix, IMO. And believe me, I take the environment a lot more seriously than most ah’s. Throwing up offshore windfarms will only cause more destruction to the environment.