The fascinating thing about it though, is that it is both: a necessity (for some) and a problem to avoid. And the problem to avoid the most is that it becomes a necessity for some. How does that happen? How could we make sure that it doesn't? It's not either or, it's more complicated than that.

Are those even concepts, "clean air dependence" and "food dependence"? I don't think they're in common use. Typically when we call about "dependence" on something (for example "car dependence") is precisely because such dependence is seen as problematic.

You can advocate for that for sure - but I do research, not advocacy so if I focus on this problem that's entirely fair, it doesn't mean I "normalize" it.

Awful feedback loops it's what I am interested in. Someone's got to do it :)

Sure that's the kind of reasoning you did. But most migrants do fly to visit their families, and that's the kind of processes I am interested in when studying "flight dependence"

What about people who have family over the world though

How would it "kill" such family?

It increases more in relative (not absolute) terms: it more than doubled over that period, holiday didn't.

Visiting family can be an important need though

In relative terms that's the biggest increase.

But look at that line on visiting friends and family!

I suppose but I guess that's the point. Many (mental or mathematical) models of EV diffusion are based on the assumption that people will just be "rational" about it and when they're efficient and cheap enough they'll buy them. But people are (also)"ideological" about it.

Hi Dana! :)

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Cheers Karen!