A Plane Load Of Pollution

Modern people are well aware of the serious ever increasing pollution problems we are facing for the future.

The average British person has a gigantic estimated carbon dioxide emissions usage of around 10tons a year! The government has suggested a person should be creating no more than 2tons of emissions a year in order to cut these nasty fumes by a target of 80% by 2050.

So why I ask you are airports such as Heathrow building even MORE runways to add to their collection? How are people supposed to be reducing their carbon footprints when the government is allowing them major means to increase them? This could be sending the wrong message out to people as its leading them to believe that our pollution problems are unimportant for the time being. ‘We will worry about them later’ I can almost hear people think.

On my surfing travels through the internet I came across a handy flight carbon emissions calculator on the website. By using the emissions counter I discovered that a holiday to Ibiza for four is causing over a whapping 1.5tons of carbon emissions. For each person that’s almost half of their yearly recommended emission allowance of 2tons used up in just 8 hours of flying.

Flights from London to New York cause over 2 huge tons of ozone destroying carbon emissions in one go. Don’t even get me started on the Oozy lovers who cause around a mind blowing 7tons of emissions with their long haul flights to Australia. I understand it’s a very beautiful country but it won’t be staying like that for long if you highflying travelers don’t start cutting back on your air miles.

Maybe the credit crunch isn’t such a bad thing after all, the less money people have to spend on flights away the less carbon emissions they cause. Think of the planet people!

By Kimberley Gammon