A Boeing quality engineer went public Tuesday with damaging allegations that the jet-maker took manufacturing shortcuts to increase production rates that leave potentially serious structural flaws on its 787 and 777 widebody planes.
The Boeing engineer, Sam Salehpour, alleged that almost 1,000 787s and about 400 777s currently flying are at risk of premature fatigue damage and structural failure.
I said “this year”, and I’m flying 4 times. Lots of people who need to travel for work do more than that in a month. Relax.
Wow, are you really so ignorant? You fly like 10-100x more frequently than the average person. Don’t you realize what the NO2 does to the atmosphere at those altitudes?
Your carbon footprint is probably in the top 10% of all humans. It everyone lived like you, we’d need 20 earths. We only have 1 earth, and you’re killing it.
Our grandchildren will wonder why we didn’t send people like you to the guillotine for all the people you’re killing.
You’re preaching from a position of luxury though. Not everyone has jobs in their immediate area. Not everyone has family in their immediate area. Not everyone can drive hundreds of miles with an electric car to make ends meet. Not everyone has access to affordable rail.
I’m happy you have these things, and commend you for your relatively small impact on the Earth, but just know that a lot of people don’t have that choice.
The majority of the population has a phone, and cities need more mixed use affordable blousing
99% of people have access to busses, but they refuse to use them like selfish assholes.
You need carve a path of compromise to reach your ideals. Also, many women do not feel safe on buses in the US.
Holy shit the melodrama. Focus this energy on somebody who actually doesn’t give a shit about the environment. Maybe not, y’know, someone who just has to get to a couple fucking weddings and flies coach. Would you like me to refuse to go to the weddings on the grounds of the climate? I’m terribly sorry that my entire family and everyone I know doesn’t live within walkable distance, that’s really my mistake. If you think I’m a murderer, then how about you act like it and come get me. Act on the terrible crime you apparently think I’m committing instead of this virtue signaling garbage. Moron.
This person doesn’t give a shit. That’s the point.
And obviously you don’t either. Look in a mirror. Stop the mass extinction that you’re causing if you fly more than once per year.
Way to dodge everything I said, hyperbolic virtue signaler. I hope you’ve never been a passenger in a car or a plane, else you’re a massive hypocrite too.
Busses. Bikes. Trains. Boats.
Bike trip would take weeks, bus trip several days, have you heard of the train system in the US? And if it’s across land, well, guess I can’t take a boat! Guess what that leaves?
What would you suggest in this case, o’ paragon of virtue?
Do you have a job? Is it feasible for you to ride your bike for weeks to get to commitments? Or are you, as the other commenter said, speaking from a very, very privileged position?
I’ve traveled across the US by bus, train, and bicucle. Im quite familiar with those methods of transport, yes. I recommend trains.
If you can’t make it to your comittments with reasonable methods of public transportation you have too many comittments.
Adjust your life to what is sustainable. Don’t try to fit a square peg in a circular hole. If you are invited to some event that’s thousands of miles away, say you can’t go because its too far.
Traveled across the US by bus?! Sorry, I’m not interested in the opinions of mass murderers. I weep for your victims. Somebody bring out the guillotine.
And that’s a “no” on the full-time job, then?
By the way, busses create greenhouse gasses. If we need to get carbon emissions to zero, and you take the bus, by your own logic, you are a murderer. Stew on that for a bit.
Plenty of busses run on city electric grids. But you’re right, we need to make all busses electric and make the electricity renewable. Its not OK to burn a gram of fossil fuels.
Well gee wiz, I sure hope you’re ensuring any and all of your electricity is coming from renewable sources without emissions. That coal stuff is pretty nasty! Otherwise you’d be a bit of a hypocrite every time you posted something here, wouldn’t you?
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This is you, by the way. Really helping the cause by being a toxic ass on the internet. What a visionary. I’m not taking responsibility for the structure of society that got rolling years and years before I was born. I’m also not going to cut ties with family and friends and ruin my own life for the sake of preventing the very, very little that I’m actually contributing to greenhouse gasses. Fucking cope, and find a new angle. You’ve got the wrong guy. You’re lucky I’m not the type to associate your behavior with all environmentalists. People seem to be agreeing with me that this misdirected virtuous hero act isn’t working for you.