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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Every hour a whole plane is in flight emits approximately 1/4 ton of GHG eq. Even if all 30,000 took private planes I'm not sure you could get to a percentage of that number.

10% of Alberta's yearly emissions is 27,000,000 tons of CO2e
https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-an...20per%20capita.

An 8 hour flight creates about 2 tons CO2e

https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html

There's also an argument that modern aircraft are equally as fuel efficient as vehicles when distance travelled and the number of people transported are considered.

Clearly it would be good to improve both, but air travel doesn't seem to be any less efficient than travelling by car.

https://www.traveller.com.au/how-fue...th-cars-h1gc84