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Originally Posted by eeyore  99% of air travel is non essential - the great majority of flying for business is for meetings that could just as easily be done by teleconference , while although i agree about the necessity of holiday now and then you dont have to fly to have a nice break, loads of people holiday in the uk - plus much of northern europe is within easy striking distance by ferry and train
so the basic answer to "who is making these non essential flights" is holiday makwers an business men.
That said the whole thing is something of as red herring as air travel only accounts for 4% of anthropogenic CO2 so stopping flying wont make a massive difference anyway - the real big culprits are power generation, driving private cars on unecessary journeys, and the manufacture of cement. |
If electrical power generation is a big culprit why all the hype about electric cars ?