• BottleUpAndExplode@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Do you think people use planes for fun? Only way I can see my family is by plane. Well, I can go by ferry but that means I will have to spend about 20x money and it’ll take about 48 hours on the ferry, instead of 1.5 hours on the plane.

    • Skua@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      “We should use planes less” is not “you mustn’t use planes ever”. Not every plane journey can easily be replaced. That’s okay. Near me there’s a flight that takes off to go a few hundred miles to the country’s capital each morning, and there are similar ones going much shorter distances all over the country. That journey could and should be a high speed train journey with suitable infrastructure

      • laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        You always get this kind of outrage when you tell people to do anything less. Eat less meat: How dare you tell me I cannot eat meat! I work hard every day at the blue collar job and all I want to do is to come home to a nice steak!

        • Firestorm Druid
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          The amount of mental gymnastics people go through to not even consider veganism is so astounding. Morality aside, cutting all animal products would do so much good for the environment.