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A Crying Shame: Europe's 'Flight Shaming' Movement: Shame On You For Flying On A Plane
American Thinker ^
| 11/01/2019
| By Chris J. Krisinger
Posted on 11/01/2019 7:54:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Well, it doesn't seem to be working....
In fact, air travel
here rose 3.9% in the first five months of 2019 (while decreasing by a comparable percentage in Sweden) and
global forecasts for air travel continue to rise according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
That said, while few Americans have actually heard of the European "flight shame" movement, a North American strain is already emerging. One can already draw similarities and parallels to
flygskam from American politicians — Democrats in particular — with their
proposals for some sort of "Green New Deal" having more urgent and radical iterations that could drastically alter today's expectations and ability to fly by air.
To: SeekAndFind
Hopefully, Greta Thunberg and her commie family will be ‘flight shamed’ for flying all over North America, politicizing oil usage. That family is SOOO HYPOCRITICAL.
To: SeekAndFind
Sounds like something out of Atlas Shrugged.
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posted on
11/01/2019 7:58:38 AM PDT
by
simpson96
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:03:45 AM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....)
To: SeekAndFind
For a person to be able to shame you, you have to respect their opinion.
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:09:08 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: SeekAndFind
Europe’s economy is tourist based. Well, it was.
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:10:27 AM PDT
by
The Toll
To: cuban leaf
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:11:13 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
Good for them. The less they fly, the cheaper it gets for me to fly.
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:11:55 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian; SeekAndFind
I personally support air travel because it generates so many tons of CO2 -— the Healthy Planet Miracle!
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:13:10 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Please mazimize your CO2. Do it for Mother Earth. Green plants need to breeathe!)
To: SeekAndFind
i don’t like to fly, but may have to now.
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:16:27 AM PDT
by
ronniesgal
(so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
To: SeekAndFind
Last time I checked, it was still a lot cheaper to fly than choo-choo. I bet cheap wins.
To: SeekAndFind
All those socialists can just spend the entire winter in the cold instead of a warm tropical beach. And pay out the nose for heat.
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:29:22 AM PDT
by
Oldexpat
(Jobs Not Mobs)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
Hopefully, Greta Thunberg and her commie family will be flight shamed for flying all over North America, politicizing oil usage. That family is SOOO HYPOCRITICAL.
Foreigners participating in American civil discourse. It's wrong and there has to be a way to legally stop it.
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:34:55 AM PDT
by
Spirochete
(GOP: Gutless Old Party)
To: SeekAndFind
Europe? That’s somewhere east of here isn’t it?
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:41:25 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
To: minnesota_bound
I am an aviation nut, and I got this application almost a month ago on the recommendation of a friend, and I looked at it for 15 seconds and paid the money to get a year plan.
It is that good.
Love it. Just love it!
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posted on
11/01/2019 8:55:22 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
To: SeekAndFind
So the stinky liberals are going to stop flying???
Excellent news!!!
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posted on
11/01/2019 9:40:26 AM PDT
by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: Mrs. Don-o
Yup. Plants 💌 CO2.
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posted on
11/01/2019 9:42:03 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
To: DeFault User
Last time I checked, it was still a lot cheaper to fly than choo-choo. I bet cheap wins. Money is data, which is why most money is stored and processed by computers these days. The price of something tells us roughly the amount of energy that was consumed in making it, as well as how much pollution was generated. It is easy to determine if product A pollutes more than B. Half an airline ticket is taxes and fees, so there's obviously a whole lot of CO2 emissions taking place indirectly that have nothing to do with flying. A train ticket only covers 10% to 25% of the total cost, with taxes covering the rest. Without train subsidies nobody would ride them as they would be priced out of the market. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine which is the biggest polluter. It's not even close.
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posted on
11/01/2019 9:42:13 AM PDT
by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
To: SeekAndFind
Not good enough, Comrades! We must blockade airports and physically assault passengers in the name of non-violence!
To: DeFault User
Force equals mass times acceleration... it takes the same amount of energy to move you from Frankfurt to Belgium regardless of how you travel.
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posted on
11/01/2019 9:51:15 AM PDT
by
willyd
(I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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