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Five years of no flying
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5 years ago, I realised that my #academic travels were emitting way too much #greenhouse #gas #GHG (up to 20 t #CO2 / yr) and hence that my #professional activity was not #sustainable. I thus decided to completely ban air #travel (#plane) and travel mainly by #train within #Europe.
5 years later (i.e. now), my professional travels' #carbonfootprint dropped by **a factor 50**, without impacting my #publication records (compared to 2017 - 2019).
I wrote a post for the #blog of @a4e about my experience. Check it out: astronomersforplanet.earth/fiv…
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Five years of no flying - astronomersforplanet.earth
The “Global Warming of 1.5ºC” special report by the IPCC in 2018 acted as a shock in academia. Over the next few years, many initiatives, like A4E or Labos1point5, appeared in order to make research more sustainable.Volker Ossenkopf-Okada (astronomersforplanet.earth)
A concerning graph:
"In 2022, nine countries exported 80% of the world’s wheat, corn, rice, and soybeans. 134 countries relied on those nine exporters for more than half their imports of those crops."
Draught and floods, war and disruptions to supply lines, tariffs and costs of transport – all can and do impact food availability, both generation and distribution. A most concerning graph indeed.
science.org/content/article/bu…
The article shows beautiful portraits of food growers and agricultural scenes.
