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Ban private jets and luxury emissions! [Petition] (act.wemove.eu)

submitted 11 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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Just 1% of people are responsible for half of all toxic emissions from flying.

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[–] n00b001@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Think of the carbon life cycle.

There's hydrocarbons underground that have been there for millions of years. Used to be in the air, but now it's not.

Now it's burned as jet fuel (releasing that cow back into the air)

If trees pull that co2 info their wood, what happens to that wood in 10,000 years? It's going to be in the atmosphere again (bacteria and fungi break down dead wood)

So the only way to do it, using trees, would be to burry them after maturation and make sure they don't rot. And you'd need to do this to capture the gigs tonnes of co2 that is released (that's a lot of trees...and a lot of digging...)