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Europe's five biggest airports emit more CO2 than the whole of Sweden (transportenvironment.org)
4 points by vanilla-almond on Sept 29, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is so misleading that IMO it's harmful.

They count emissions at the departing airport, so if a Swede flies via Paris to Shenzhen for a quick meeting or Thailand for a vacation, most of the emissions are assigned to Paris, which has nothing to to with the actual decisions that led to the emissions. All it's really saying is that most flights leave big airports.


1. What does the author suggest we do about it?

2. Why doesn't the author of the blogpost list his or her name?

3. Has the author taken any action in their own personal life to decrease their own CO2 footprint?




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