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A cool guide to the carbon footprint of major travel methods (i.redd.it)

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 74 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Carbon footprint is a term that was made up by oil companies to shift blame from them to us.

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[–] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Doesn't change the fact that some forms of travel are objectively worse for the environment than others. If you can reasonably take a train or a bus instead of a plane or car, you should do so.

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[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 years ago

instructions unclear: purchased a bus and am now using it to commute to work instead of an f-150

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[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

There's too much data missing though. What were the emissions for creating, maintaining, and disposing of these modes of travel?

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[–] nofob@lemmy.today 12 points 2 years ago

Oil companies sell oil and manipulate national policy to promote its use. Consumers buy it and support policy to promote its use. There's at least a bit of room for personal responsibility there.

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

And yet, here we are using this metric to discuss how to use less oil. How is this supposed to benefit them?

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[–] EndHD@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

what term can I use to put the blame back on them?