262. Is it OK to Fly in a Climate Crisis?
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Is it OK to Fly in a Climate Crisis?
In episode 2 of our How To Live A Good Life in a Climate Crisis series, the hosts grapple with one of most divisive issues for those concerned with climate change - is it ok to fly, when flying is responsible for the bulk of our personal carbon footprints, and when 80% of the world never sets foot on a plane?
Tom, Paul and Christiana dive into this thorny issue from three different perspectives. Putting forward the case for and against flying, the hosts touch on the miracle of flying, the potential of sustainable aviation fuels and offsets, and the joys of train travel! They hope that these tricky conversations will be a springboard for further and deeper conversations for listeners.
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Why do aircraft leave contrails in the sky?
Europe Talks Flying: navigating public opinion on aviation and climate
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Paul de Kineen-Kine. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Tom Rifik Carna. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Christina Fijetics. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm Paul de Kincer. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we continue our series on how to live a good life in a climate crisis and today it's possibly |
| 0:16.5 | the most controversial and the biggest topic we're going to cover should you get on a plane. |
| 0:21.4 | Thanks for being here. So welcome back, listeners. |
| 0:28.3 | We're going to bring you today another episode |
| 0:30.0 | in our series on how to live a good life in a climate crisis and today is in some |
| 0:34.8 | ways the big one. We're going to talk about flying. Now I say the big one not |
| 0:39.5 | necessarily because this is the topic that has the largest climate and environmental impact of any that we've covered in this series. |
| 0:46.5 | It may well be for those of us who are recording this podcast and many of you who are listening that flying is the biggest part of your own personal |
| 0:53.8 | footprint even though it's not the biggest part of the impact on the climate and that is a small |
| 0:59.1 | pracy of someone the new ones that we will get into. |
| 1:01.9 | So I'm just going to explain that again. It'd be the |
| 1:04.7 | largest part of the climate impact for us and our listeners, but in terms of the |
| 1:08.9 | entire population and the entire world. Exactly. We give us the stats, Tom. |
| 1:12.4 | Well, before we get there let's |
| 1:14.2 | actually talk first of all about the what you just said actually the reason that it is not |
| 1:19.4 | the largest part of our overall impact on the climate is because most people never set for on a plane. |
| 1:26.3 | 80% of the world population. So the first thing we should say before we start this episode is that even having a conversation |
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