No because we've accepted rich flying their private jets and lecturing everyone about how they are causing climate change by driving their suv to drop off kids at school.
This isn't any weirder than that.
Well, they're doing it to keep their income and profits coming. A major part of it in fact - probably half the yearly income.
Since you're probably from a western country, how much of an income cut and inconvenience when driving/commuting were you prepared to take to combat climate change until now?
Because that's really what you're asking here - are you going to take a 50% paycut and stop using your ICE vehicle forever?
Only if everyone else does. I.e. a fossil fuel tax so high that it renders helicoptering snow for recreational activities untenable.
Most people I know just commute on bike or public transport.
However, the heli strategy did not work, as the CEO explains in “Capital”: “This attempt did not work,” says In-Albon. The amount of snow per flight is too small and loading and unloading too difficult.
It didnt even work.
Does taylor swift or ursula von der leyn really need a private plane for traveling 50km?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/revealed-a...
Some people feel like they're treated like serfs: you stay in your village, on car, no flights, no tourism, save water, wave electricity, while I, the nobleman, get to travel to climate change conferences in private planes, because I am important to the cause.
Answering questions like "what should people do instead?" is important to figuring out how we can move away from things that damage the climate. If you just tell people "your life and livelihood isn't as important as X" isn't going to get that person to agree with you.
The point of my comment is not to trivialize the livelihoods of the inhabitants of “a few villages”. As you correctly point out, that would be crass and unfair.
The point of my comment is that climate change is an existential crisis at a scale much larger than “a few villages”: it’s fairly likely to result in an extinction event. For all villages.
The earth changes. Humanity doesn't have a responsibility to a resort owner keep things the same as they were when we started keeping good records.
I grew up in one of those tourism towns. It's like old school strip mining but for society. Instead of poisoning watersheds it poisons society. It turns businessmen into swindlers. It turns culture into caricature. It turns the economy into a disgusting web of perverse incentives in which every actor is constantly dealing in way that would give a mafia run dumpster company pause. Good riddance.
It's a massive waste of energy overall.
Paradoxically, global warming benefited Europe this winter, reducing the influence of the Russian gas embargo.
In any case, European countries have lower greenhouse gas emissions per citizen than, say, the US or Australia (since we actually have emissions taxes).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
When your enjoyment requires the equivalent of thousands working for you, and it is from a resource that is finite and non-renewable, then it is probably wasteful.
Found it: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/
Every resource is finite and non-renewable considering even the sun will go out at some point. Let's not bemoan the use of fossil-sourced energy until the point we level up in technology and can master less polluting sources. After all, fossil fuels have fostered more human life than climate change will ever destroy.
That remains to be seen.
And Big Oil worked very hard for decades at smothering any effort to develop less polluting alternative energy sources. They’re still doing it by suing the EU for mandating laws to reduce fossil fuel usage.
This will force people into reducing its use. Companies producing more efficient or alternatively-powered technology will gain the most. So, the market would address this.
On top of this, OPEC playing games is also prompting importers to find alternatives.
But I am indeed worried about the impact on the environment.
Not only that, current "proven reserves" are based on what's economical to extract. As the price of oil rises, we will find more oil.
At the point it causes eventual human extinction.
> “Of course it sounds incredibly stupid to transport snow by helicopter. But that was the only way we could save the slalom and combined races. The effort was absolutely justified.” He referred to the very high added value for the entire region.
We don't need to resettle everyone in the Phoenix because air conditioning uses too much energy...