One fun example of this is going vegan as a personal carbon offset. If you do this for around two years (exact estimates vary) it avoids enough carbon emissions to offset a single round-trip cross-country flight: https://flightfree.org/flight-emissions-calculator
Alternatively, Delta lets you conveniently add $5 to your ticket to buy carbon credits and totally offset all these emissions! Wow, a miracle!
Yeah. It's hard to think about this problem within the US, where viable inter-city rail only exists between a few cities on the east coast. If you want to go long distances flying is the only way. Driving a personal car for that distance is even worse in terms of carbon emissions. This country is set up like a machine to drain life from the world.
One fun example of this is going vegan as a personal carbon offset. If you do this for around two years (exact estimates vary) it avoids enough carbon emissions to offset a single round-trip cross-country flight: https://flightfree.org/flight-emissions-calculator
Alternatively, Delta lets you conveniently add $5 to your ticket to buy carbon credits and totally offset all these emissions! Wow, a miracle!
But the point is to reduce emissions, not to just shuffle them around...
Yeah. It's hard to think about this problem within the US, where viable inter-city rail only exists between a few cities on the east coast. If you want to go long distances flying is the only way. Driving a personal car for that distance is even worse in terms of carbon emissions. This country is set up like a machine to drain life from the world.