Airplanes and Climate Change: The Guardian’s Week-Long Debate
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.26.06 | 6:47 AM ET
The Guardian’s Travelog is currently hosting a week of posts about air travel and its effect on climate. The opening post comes from Tom Morton, managing director of Climate Care. “If all air passengers had to offset five times more than they emitted on their flight, few would argue against air travel on the grounds of climate change impact,” he writes. “Somewhere between making an equal reduction and making a reduction five times that emitted by your flight, there is a point at which environmental indifference to flying evaporates. It is just a matter of debate as to where that point is.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
