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Air Travel Is Worse Than a Hummer With Wings
If you want to cut your carbon footprint, donât buy a Prius -- turn in your frequent flyer card.
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Christie Aschwanden decided to stay home for a year. Not because she doesn't like to travel, but because she doesn't like what travel does to the environment:
Why does air travel get left out of the mix when we're talking about reducing our carbon footprint? One could argue, because cars matter more -- they're the largest single contributor to climate change in the transportation sector. Air travel accounts for about 10 percent of all carbon emissions in the U.S., versus 36 percent for passenger cars -- and some of that is air freight.