electric airplanes?

Possibly, some day. The largest electric airplane prototype for commercial flight takes only 36 passengers, and the range is limited.

I want the world to get better governments, especially Russia, so that we can could take the train instead.
China has expanded its high-speed rail network immensely in the past decades. That is what the West should be competing with them with instead of who will build the biggest AI-powered surveillance network to keep the poor masses in check while the rich continue to pollute.

You only need to go to Japan once in a lifetime,  but you can go to Thailand all the time, lots of people go twice a year.  Gambling, Girls, Golf, they got everything.   You can probably retire there on pension.

Let me tell you... Thailand is a super-popular tourist destination for Swedish people and some people fly their whole families there every year despite the distance. That's crazy excessive amounts of CO₂ that I'm disgusted and ashamed for my country.

When the 2004 tsunami hit, more Swedish tourists got killed than any other single nationality. I once knew a guy who lost his parents. There's even a small but noticeable group of Thai in Sweden now. I think my previous neighbour married one. I've had a Thai coworker. There's been Thai restaurants, food stores and massage parlours (...) everywhere around here for years.

The amount of flying around the world needs to stop being so excessive if we're going to get something done against climate change. Taxation needs to be progressive: so people would pay higher prices the more they take off and land, but instead it is the opposite.
I've booked a connecting flight to Helsinki to fly from there to Tokyo because that was cheaper than to fly directly from Helsinki -- on the same plane. I'm not proud of that. I wouldn't have minded some time in Helsinki otherwise, but with the boat to/from Helsinki it would have cost me 50% more.
Global air travel will decrease naturally when there's no longer any rubber trees for making air plane tires, and winds are too strong to fly, but then it will be too late.

So did anything ever come of this? Was it just a random siren from CC to keep us on our toes?