I don’t know about you guys, but I avoid this problem by flying my jet mostly Outside of The Environment.

When I was a kid, I was convinced (by the environmentalist of the time) that we were all going to freeze to death with global cooling from man made gases. Then we were all going to die from the holes in the ozone layer. Then we are all going to burn to death, from some academic predictions back then, some years ago. But with all this global warming, Utah and much of the west has had the largest snowfall in recorded history, and we will probably have widespread flooding this year. Funny how nature humbles the environmental scientists. Which is almost an oxymoron, because I have never seen an enviro publication that doesn’t smack of an agenda from the time it was funded. Real science doesn’t have an agenda. It starts with an honest question, hypothesis, and the real scientist is minimally emotional about the subsequent answer.

I don’t know about you guys, but I avoid this problem by flying my jet mostly Outside of The Environment.

Our industry and namely the NBAA, should be responding to these people with...

YOU'RE JOKING RIGHT?

There's less than 24,000 private jets in the entire world.

There's 1441 BILLION cars in the world.

Private jets make up such a minute amount of the problem that it is laughable to even respond to the critics.

Business jets - hits all the notes: elite, mostly male, mostly white male, easily tracked, and low passenger miles per gallon.

Then SUVs.

Then private cars.

Then ribeyes and eggs.

Eat your crickets you racist-patriarchal-capitalist-cisgender reprobates.

https://time.com/5942290/eat-insects-save-planet/

Business jets - hits all the notes: elite, mostly male, mostly white male, easily tracked, and low passenger miles per gallon.

Then SUVs.

Then private cars.

Then ribeyes and eggs.

Eat your crickets you racist-patriarchal-capitalist-cisgender reprobates.

https://time.com/5942290/eat-insects-save-planet/

An interesting discussion about the carbon impact of air travel is to total up the expenses and carbon penalty of perhaps taking a ship from the US to Europe or the additional carbon cost of someone taking several days to go from LA to the east coast.

in general when I do the back of the envelope calculations if a person needs to be across the country it is less expensive in many ways to fly. we use a lot of energy when we stay a motel and eat out on a trip.

after you know a client, many times Zoom with work for some meetings but there is nothing that replaces a face to face meeting.

also how many people will take a week to go to and from Florida to see Grandma and Grandpa. nothing replaces an in person hug.

Saying that since the upper 1% are so few, that they couldn't possibly be responsible for environmental impacts, doesnt ring true.

The basic measure of the intensity of Env. impact is GDP. Next is the CO2 component of industrial operations. Are these employee owned?

Example: which person has a higher Env Impact; a Guy living in a single wide and driving an F150 to work or a guy who owns enough business and operates a C550 routinely.

Think of the economic multiplier a business has; its vendors, its employees, its taxes, its utilities. Big Business (and small) are complex webs of people spendng money to buy things, make things and consume things like fuel, food, equipment.

Is it equal. Dont know. There are a lot of F150s out there an thier ownrs work for businesses that make and spend a lot.