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A great infographic of the shocking statistics behind world CO2 emissions...
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John Whitehead is a professor in the Department of Economics at Appalachian State University, arriving in Boone in 2004. He received his PhD from the University of Kentucky in 1990 and has worked at East Carolina University (12 years) and UNC-Wilmington (3 years). In addition to two sections of economics principles each semester, he has taught benefit-cost analysis, environmental economics, ...
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Geoffrey makes a good point. I was thinking that was quite odd as well. And what about factoring in lugguage weight? Or measuring CO2 emmissions based on weight of passenger + lugguage / # of economy seats vs 1st class.
Also, if I'm to run all of my kitchen appliances for 12,500 years, how many appliances would I need? I have a small kitchen. A chef's kitchen with cuisinart appliances covering all the counters in addition to ovens, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, garbage compactors, etc would definitely create more CO2 over 12,500 years than my compact kitchen would.
Pretty sad about NASA though...
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Geoffrey Styles says:
Fascinating, but just as interesting to think about the huge assumptions that went into some of those figures. For example, first class and business class seats may take up more room on the plane and more flight attendants per seat, but would us folks in the back be flying as cheaply (and thus as often) if the airlines had to make all their profit off us? So unless you're assuming that first and business class passengers also weigh more each on average (the reality might be the opposite) then attributing 3.5x the emissions to them looks pretty shaky.
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