Just_a_fan wrote: ↑08 Jan 2020, 00:18
Did you read the full article? The bit at the bottom that reckons that the football World Cup produces 10x the CO2 of a whole season of F1?
Motorsport is indefensible from an environmental perspective. That's the simple hard truth. But other "clean" sports are just as bad. Football? Yes. Athletics? Yes - everyone flies to competitions around the world (that includes the Olympics which probably matches or exceeds the football World Cup in its pollution footprint). Cycling? Yes, see athletics. Marathons? Yes, see athletics. Equestrian? Yes, see athletics (plus the animals themselves and all the stuff used to look after them).
F1 itself is completely insignificant as a source of global warming, it's the visual
image that'll be all over the media, potentially. F1 as an
example. Generally most human activity generates problems, simply because there are too many of us, but what could happen in Oz is that everyone'll be up in arms about it, looking for a cause, a scapegoat, something to latch onto. And there will be F1, all rich and excessive, burning all that fossil fuel just to go round and round.
The real problem obviously is that in 1800 there were 1 billion people and by 2030 there'll be 8.5 billion and counting, but nobody wants to have their inalienable right to reproduce themselves questioned (this is how we evolved after all), so instead they'll look for a handy band of people with their heads above the parapet, and there will be F1 right there on the scene with half the world's cameras, ticking every wasteful human excess box you can think of!
Tho as @Jolle says in many ways it won't hurt to have butts kicked about global warming