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If more people thought like that instead of not being satisfied unless they get two offshore vacations a year things would be much better for everyone
Nothing wrong with wanting to see the world.
Except for the fact that most of aviation's pollution comes from passenger flights and it pollutes a whole lot more to travel by plane vs car.
Put four passengers in a full sized truck and make them travel cross country vs put them in a plane and make them travel halfway across the country, their environmental impact is lower in the truck even if they traveled twice the distance.
There's nothing normal about being able to visit the whole world in our lifetime and it's a concept that didn't exist 100 years ago. We would do perfectly fine without it... Heck, we would do better without it because that would reduce our global emissions by at least a percent and potentially 2% depending on what people decide to do during their vacations instead.
Not even talking about emissions, the temporary clouds that planes create contribute to more global warming than all the CO2 emissions by the industry since its creation.
Put down the gun.
Ok keep sitting in your cave, garden gnome.
Well, you said there's nothing wrong with wanting to see the world, I explained at least one thing wrong with it, but hey, keep doing what you're doing, who cares about consequences, right?
I explained at least one thing wrong with it
No, GP said that there's nothing wrong with wanting to see the world, and all you replied what's wrong with air travel.
And just because traveling the world is a recent phenomenon, doesn't mean people haven't had the desire to explore the world and distant places for centuries.
No matter how you do it, the environmental impact is there and when people say "the world" I don't think they mean visiting the next town over.