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La peli cuenta la historia de mi viaje de 42 000 km sin aviones para investigar la adaptación al cambio climático en Papúa. Como me negué a cumplir la orden de mi empleador de coger un avión para volver,perdí mi trabajo. Dirección de Paolo Casalis @produzionifuorifuoco Tráiler y visión de la peli👉produzionifuorifuoco.it/ricerc

¡Esta es la 27ª proyección pública en el 12º país! 👉 google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?m

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@Thomas1108

Du hast schon recht mit deiner Kritik, dass Bahnfahren oft umständlicher und teurer ist als das Flugzeug zu nehmen.
Das mit der Erreichbarkeit bestimmter Zielen ist aber so eine Sache: #Verkehrswende bedeutet nicht, nur das Verkehrsmittel zu wechseln sondern auch, das Mobilitätsverhalten zu verändern: Weniger, dafür längere Reisen bspw. oder erst einmal die nähere Umgebung abgrasen, bevor mensch über den Ozean fliegt. Auch gedankenlos gebuchten Geschäftsreisen dürfen wieder seltener werden, …

Dass die "Parteien der Mitte" die richtigen Anreize setzen müssten (und gewisse Fehlentwicklungen schlicht unterbinden) ist aber, wie du schreibst, das eigentliche, zentrale Problem!

#Bahn #StayGrounded

@DerKlimablog

I am going hiking in Scotland, meeting a dear old friend. He now lives overseas, but is in Europe currently, so we both convinced our families it would be a good idea to give us a couple of days to wander around in the bog for a bit.
I #dontfly so it is the early train to Mannheim now, with a couple of more legs to at some point arrive in Amsterdam. Then it is the overnight ferry to Newcastle. Deutsche Bahn is already sending me weird emails about my trip's chances for punctual arrival, so let's see if I actually manage to catch this elusive ferry....
#staygrounded #TrainTravel #trains

The least we can do is object to this madness... More aviation ...
- won't make us #happier
- won't create #meaningfulwork
- won't help people pay the bills

It will exacerbate lots of existing challenges...

petition.parliament.uk/petitio

Why does our society keep banging it's head against the same walls in ever more aggressive ways... #StayGrounded

stay-grounded.org/information-

@fossilfreeeu @fossilfreeldn @Parents4FutureUK @StayGrounded_net

Kevin Anderson 2012:
"The inconvenient truth of carbon offsets"
nature.com/articles/484007a

This almost puts an end to My Great Idea:
for CO2 from your 1 flight per decade, multiply tons by 2 and € 680, and put a PV installation on poor family's roof for that amount.
Almost. Because PV is infectious signalling, the CO2 for electricity really doesn't get emitted and PV helps that family out of poverty.

But it is crucial that you watch that it gets truly done. Plenty poor people in your own city so you can factcheck it. Don't trust any organisation with doing it in India.

It is un-trustworthy organisations which force this idea into purely personal choice, and personal choices are insufficient. :(

P.S. € 680 per ton of CO2, times 2 for ✈️CO2, are the guesstimates by German EPA Umweltbundesamt for repairing damages occurring up to 2100. umweltbundesamt.de/publikation

I shouldn't be quoting it as I don't know how they assign € to the broader impacts of malnutrition or to deaths in famines, or wether the experience of dying in a mudslide is worth more than in a wildfire – and how they put a € on the friends' experience of such a loss.
But it works for ridiculing a carbon #offset of €35 per flight.

A roundtrip Frankfurt - Auckland is about 40,000 km. A person km in long distance air travel got assigned € 0.1606 in above PDF, table 3031, page 38. ( € 0.237 /pkm for short distance)

So an offset for this flight would be € 6424 – if we were to trust the calculation, and if we were to ignore damages occurring after 2100.

What is likely my one work trip without family this year is to Graz (and @axelmaas and @suchi_kulkarni). Do I risk the following affordable, but long and risky journey:

day 1:
- Train from Helsinki to Turun satama (dep 17.35, arr 19.49)
- Ferry to Stockholm (dep 20.55, arr 06.30)

day 2:
- Train to Malmö central (dep 07.24, arr 11.52)
- Train to Copenhagen central (many trains)
- Train to Hamburg hbf (dep 14.22, arr 19.00)
- Night train to Linz (dep 20.10, arr 07.43,
timetable not confirmed but bookable)

day 3:
- Train to Graz (dep 07.55, arr 11.03, there are plenty of later trains)

I've done all of this as far as Hamburg (and beyond) many times, but I wonder what it would be like doing this combination? I would be on one ticket from Stockholm to Copenhagen and then another from Copenhagen through to Graz.

Also this would be two nights of travel for (only!) one night actually there. Would I be better to fly both ways and try to find another institute to visit?

I've been travelling like this for many years, but this feels like the most time-constrained (and disproportionate) overland journey I've ever contemplated...

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Now on the #NightTrain to Stockholm. Our departure is postponed indefinitely (!!) while we wait for some passengers from Switzerland. (Good to know for the next time I come from Milan via Basel.) The company is good and I have 8 hours in Stockholm before catching my ferry, so I'm not concerned.

The bistro car is not with us yet, we'll probably recover it in Malmö.

#SJ#SJ346#EN346