[Greenbuilding] Perceptions of Nature & Reality

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Splitting hairs won't solve anything. Some cold truth.
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Norbert Senf <mheat at mha-net.org> wrote:
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>> yes, big problem. For everyone, because the simple answer is "then stop
>> flying and staying in hotels"
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> As a big fan of George Monbiot's I'm in favor of not flying, doing
> everything we can to avoid it.
> Another interesting wrinkle about the impact of flying which I learned
> just the other day has to do with the time frame we are concerned about:
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> "According to the paper, if we focus just on the impact over the next five
> years, then *planes currently account for more global warming than all
> the cars on the world's roads *– a stark reversal of the usual
> comparison. Per passenger mile, things are even more marked: flying turns
> out to be on average *50 times* worse than driving in terms of a
> five-year warming impact. [...] If we shift to a 20-year time frame, things
> look completely different."
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> www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/09/carbon-emissions-planes-shipping
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> A barrel of oil, for example, equals about 10,000 hours of human labor in
>> energy equivalence.
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> Energy slaves.
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