I do not necessarily post here, but qd I feel, like tonight, a little lonely against everyone, this is the only place I have in mind to come and seek some comfort from people who think like me.
So that's the story: I just came back from having a drink with (friends, and at the end of the evening, the discussion started on ecology.
The reason was that we wanted to visit 2 friends in the corner of Bordeaux (from Belgium) and that I showed my reluctance to choose the plane, for my "green principles".
Which led to the formation of me "against" the 4 others, passing as svt for an "extremist", followed by the usual excuses of "you have a mobile phone? Well throw the pcq it polluted to be manufactured" or "Do you drive? That too you should avoid" etc etc .... the usual bad faith of anti-ecological arguments which consist in saying "if you are not 100% green, you are not at all"
We will say that I am "used to it" but hey, it's with close friends, it's harder to support
Finally either, let's move on to the emotional and depressive side which are personal, I come here to ask what is the difference between a plane trip of 1000 km for 3 people, and the same trip by car.
Because there are a lot of things at stake: speed, price (thank you rayanair for allowing us to fly 1000 km pr for a ridiculously low price: /), the ease, the need to have the car and drivers etc ....
I just found this while surfing quickly on google:
http://autresdelices.blogspot.com/2007/ ... risme.html
Of which:
Take the time to look at the greenhouse gas emissions, depending on the transport, for an equivalent distance:
- boat: 0,2
- train: 3
- bus: 25
- road car: 60
- city car: 100
- short-haul plane: 100
- long-haul plane: 60
I guess it's for one person.
But I was so surprised to see such a small difference between the car and the plane
So I take this opportunity to ask you from what distance and what number of passengers is it REALLY unthinkable (for someone with green tendencies) to take the plane, and from that it becomes what others tell me , ie chicanery, or bad faith (because yes I also ride in the car, I do not use the bike to do 1 km because I have my scooter etc so I know myself that I am far from being perfect
)
Finally, there it is,
I don't know if I was very clear, but thank you for your answers.
(Then anyway, it did me good to dump it in here because otherwise I tend to turn it around over and over again, and come to think negative things like I'm all alone. against tlm, that nobody understands anything, that as long as I live I will have this kind of "confrontation" where I am probably the only one to come out badly, because pr others it is "harmless" etc etc)
Dreamer
