"‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable #jet#fuel not realistic, report finds - #IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace #kerosene within timeframe needed to avert #ClimateDisaster"
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“It’s a huge #greenwashing exercise by the #aviation industry. It’s magical thinking that they will be able to do this.”
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"Burning sustainable aviation fuels still emits some #carbon dioxide, while the land use changes needed to produce the fuels can also lead to increased #pollution. #Ethanol biofuel, made from #corn, is used in these fuels, and meeting the Biden administration’s production goal, the report found, would require 114m acres of corn in the #US, about a 20% increase in current land area given over to to the crop.
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This sustainable fuels target will require an enormous 18,887% increase in production, based on 2022 production levels, this decade, the new report found.
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In the #UK, meanwhile, 50% of all agricultural land will have to be given up to sustain current flight passenger levels if jet fuel was entirely replaced."
@ariadne perhaps we should all accept a slower pace of life. Slow food, slow travel, slow reading and thinking. Only when disaster imminent should we act, think and move fast. Currently it appears society does everything the other way round, fast food, fast travel, fast reading no time for thinking. But when crisis hits we act slowly, genocide decide in 3-5 years, a nation invaded perhaps go to their aid next year, our world heating up sometime in a couple of decades we'll respond....