Climate activists from Last Generation disrupted Munich airport by gluing themselves to a runway, leading to flight cancellations and delays over a busy weekend.

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    6 months ago

    As a Mallorca resident, I’ll take the 40 minute flight from Barcelona over the 6 hour boat trip thank you very much

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      6 months ago

      I’m sorry, I was referring to Germans that head down to Mallorca for a weekend to get shitfaced. It doesn’t make sense that a train ride from Hamburg to Munich costs 5 times as much as a flight from Hamburg to Mallorca.

      Inner European flights are also important, until we have a dedicated highspeed train network that connects all of Europe’s larger cities with each other.

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        6 months ago

        To be clear, I am all pro trains. In Spain trains are also 3 to 5 times more expensive than the same trip on a plane which I find bizarre

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        6 months ago

        Literally, I am not entitled to fast and comfortable methods of transportation just for living on an island?

        We can speak about reducing the frequency of flights, finding more efficient ways to fly, or faster boats. But planes still have a use case

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          6 months ago

          Well, no you’re not, if it was up to me. Same with flying from Munich to Berlin. You have the choice do it, but you shouldn’t, because it’s emitting like 200x the amount of CO2 and you know it. So take the less damaging option, for the sake of all of us and our children. How else are we supposed to drop emissions to zero in the next 25 years if everyone feels entitled to “fast and comfortable”?!

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            6 months ago

            The least damaging option is to go back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle, let’s not be extremists.

            Plus according to This web page , a 100km economy class plane ticket emits 1.2x the amount of co2