Can Air Travel Be Green?
If David Attenborough's address to world leaders at the 2018 UN climate summit is to be believed then we are "facing a man-made disaster of global scale" (Carrington, 2018). Climate change is a threat to everyone on the planet and we are at a tipping point with time running out to attempt to change the course we are on. Automobile companies are abandoning diesel vehicles and sales of electric "green" vehicles are rising exponentially year on year. Countries are investing more and more into renewable sources of energy with solar and wind farms becoming more prominent features on the horizons. What actions are being taken by our airline industries to ensure that moving forward air travel is more ethically appealing? A typical flight from London Heathrow to New York's JFK emits around 1.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide (Timperley, 2021). This is roughly one third of the average person's yearly emissions. Burning fossil fuels is bad for the environment, but ...