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Where will the tourists go? Europe’s winning and losing destinations due to the climate crisis
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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Hopefully the tourists stay within reasonable distance of their home and avoid planes, flying/international travel is way too destructive to be so normalized.
~~Like taking a round trip from Copenhagen to Tokyo and back emits something like 7x the amount of CO2 a typical danish person emits in a whole year.~~
I totally agree with your statement, however, the data seems wrong. A Copenhagen-Tokyo roundtrip emits 2.7t of CO2 (myclimate.org) and the per capita emissions of Denmark are 5t of CO2 per year. So the trip amounts to half the yearly emissions, which is still significant though.
Especially in the context of the article and Europe, flying is of course even worse, since many alternatives exist.
Generally the per capita emissions should be around 0.6t to stay within the planetary limits. So yeah, flying really isn't great in any way.
Ah my bad, you're right, seems the source I was looking at last time was incorrect, but yeah that's still a lot of CO2
IRC it's roughly equivalent to the amount of CO2 emitted by a cat during its lifetime.
Sorry Mr. Purrsalot. Daddy needs a holiday. Don't worry, it'll be over soon.
Europe is relatively small so there will be realistic alternatives to planes, like overnight trains (hopefully they become more mainstream)
Yeah I hope we get a lot more high speed trains!