the economy and the cost of living squeeze going on everywhere else, that this might be an era that might potentially be coming towards an end. At the center of this issue is an existential question: Is air travel a transportation necessity or a luxury privilege? It makes sense for them and for their shareholders, but it doesn't make sense as a national transportation system that's so vital to all of us. Only time will tell whether this is a moment of short-term economic pain brought on by the war or the beginning of a systemic shift in how we fly.
However, it hasn't been used the way they expected it to be. So air travel has continued to go up dramatically, even as we've been installing all of these video conferencing systems. And the reason is most business travel, which is what they were talking about, is done to do one of two things.
good. We, all you have to do, it doesn't matter where it is cause when you take a molecule of CO2 out of the air and the planet, it doesn't matter where you take it out; it's not like local air pollution. So, there's many virtues of this and it's, if you wanna really think about how we're gonna have low carbon jet fuel, or air travel , this is one way that
And if what you're counting on is some technological silver bullet, you have to imagine that it's going to be-- if it hasn't been invented already, And I mentioned the air travel issue.
And if the defense attorney had been any good in Kelly Clark's case, he would have pointed that out. They're claiming that air travel is unsafe.
So what we did is we just kind of did a shotgun approach to see what kind of vomeronasal receptor genes were present in lemurs, and particularly mouse lemurs. This is what air travel looks like in Madagascar.
argument with a senior executive at Delta Airlines a number of years back and the argument was because he really believed that air travel in America is just fine it's really good and all of this kind of upset that we hear is all media hype this is stuff that the press has created and actually people really like air travel in America and anybody
It's happening on a regular basis uh on the on on the nuclear sites and on a daily basis in commercial air travel space. UAP have come over nuclear missile sites and actually turned off the missiles.
But I think Europe is setting that standard now. We know that greenhouse gas emissions from air travel is incredibly high, and it's rising very rapidly and that we're going to have to change
But I think Europe is setting that standard now. But if we don't address air travel fundamentally, we're not going to address climate change.
And how did you get a trip funded by a university research budget? It sounds expensive with all that air travel . You'd need translators because these people wouldn't speak English.
choked off, sending the price sky-high and leaving airlines stuck with enormous bills for fuel. Costs are way up for airlines and ultimately air travel becomes more expensive for passengers. Airlines who struggle to make money in the best of times potentially see this as an opportunity to raise prices, obviously in the name of higher fuel costs, but to keep those prices higher for longer,
And if the defense attorney had been any good in Kelly Clark's case, he would have pointed that out. Therefore, air travel is at unsafe levels and you should stop traveling by air.
Even now, with the number of cases that are reported, the economic impact is already quite palpable. Right. Because air travel , ports, cross border trade, and tourism. Decimated. Yeah. They've already badly affected.
Well, that strength comes at a cost. So, tickets got cheaper and air travel exploded.
And so now-- and here's the other-- We may never-- --other futurism fallacy-- --never will, maybe. Or are we just running up against some laws of physics problems like with air travel ?
believed that air travel in America is just fine it's really good and all of this kind of upset that we hear is all media hype this is stuff that the press has created and actually people really like air travel in America and anybody agree with you that like travel in America is just fine not a show of hands at least in this site that were we're
agree with you that like travel in America is just fine not a show of hands at least in this site that were we're looking at it's something that ought to be totally obvious that air travel in America sucks and so I remember arguing with this guy and then I hung out at Delta and I got to see what was going on and things became clear to me you know
Escalation can happen have a ratchet effect that has that's spaced out by changing and it may come back a year or two from now but it took two years for air travel to come back after 9/11. Just
I still don't even understand what the projection was supposed to be. Next one, virtual meeting rooms that will save people the wear and tear of air travel . So this one is interesting, because it was right and wrong at the same time.
and then became something that very rich people did because they could afford it, and that was the only way it was initially commercialized. And now, of course, commercial air travel is inexpensive, and many people can experience it. And I think that we're kind of in the same area of transition.
There are a lot of pieces of the pie that are much trickier. Infrastructure, transportation. Unless you can imagine the world completely voluntarily giving up air travel , we need to figure out a way to make planes fly without any emissions.