Fly less
Flying causes 4% of our climate heating and it’s the fastest growing cause of climate change. There were 4.3 billion passenger-flights in 2018 and this is set to nearly double in the next 15 years. It is expected that 8.1 trillion miles will be flown in 2019. If aviation was a country, it would be the seventh worst polluter in the world – and worse than the entire UK economy.
Britons fly more than anyone else, but only 15% of us take 70% of the international flights. Whatever we do to be environmentally friendly in our lives, a single flight can completely wipe out an individual’s efforts for that year.
And a transatlantic round-trip causes enough global heating to melt 30 square feet of Arctic sea ice…
Britons fly more than anyone else, but only 15% of us take 70% of the international flights. Whatever we do to be environmentally friendly in our lives, a single flight can completely wipe out an individual’s efforts for that year.
And a transatlantic round-trip causes enough global heating to melt 30 square feet of Arctic sea ice…
