Is it Wrong to Fly? - Glad You Asked S1
Air travel is a quintessential product of the fossil fuel era: It’s both highly convenient and difficult to replace with alternatives. Now as the impacts of climate change are becoming more urgent, a growing “flight shame” movement is prompting consumers to question their air travel. Glad You Asked host Joss Fong explores the ethical implications of flying in a world on the brink of crisis.
Key Sources:
Myclimate flight emission calculator
https://www.myclimate.org/file....admin/user_upload/my
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission
https://science.sciencemag.org..../content/354/6313/74
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehic....les/greenhouse-gas-e
Carbon Footprint Calculations for Average Americans
https://externalassets.cooleff....ect.org/lib/content/
Share of airplane trips by American adults
https://theicct.org/blog/staff..../should-you-be-asham
Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-018-0294-x
Maps of Greenland Ice Sheet
http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/
This is how global warming is reshaping Greenland
https://www.weforum.org/agenda..../2019/05/greenland-s
Contrail cirrus radiative forcing for future air traffic
https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/19/8163/2019/
Hydrocarbon combustion
https://energyeducation.ca/enc....yclopedia/Hydrocarbo
The year in aviation: Billions of passengers, two high-profile accidents
https://www.usatoday.com/story..../travel/columnist/co
Boeing CEO: Over 80% of the world has never taken a flight.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0....7/boeing-ceo-80-perc
As Billions More Fly, Here’s How Aviation Could Evolve
https://www.nationalgeographic.....com/environment/urb
According to the annual Airlines for America report, 48 percent of travelers in the United States flew on an airline in 2017.
https://www.travelpulse.com/ne....ws/airlines/here-s-h
Climate change in the US will hurt poor people the most, according to a bombshell federal report https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/2....6/climate-change-wil
Flygskam
https://www.independent.co.uk/....travel/news-and-advi
Pipistrel Alpha Electro
https://www.pipistrel-usa.com/....wp-content/uploads/2
Air Transport Action Group
https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html
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