To combat climate change, should you stop flying?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Jet aircraft contribute 2% of all greenhouse gases--raising challenging questions. Is there a moral obligation to travel less? What are the alternatives to going by plane? Are there different standards if you’re traveling for business, vacation or keeping the family together?
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| 0:00.0 | Carolinas are being swamped by these heavy rains and high winds from Hurricane Florence. |
| 0:08.0 | The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate. |
| 0:13.0 | I don't think it's a hoax. I think there's probably a difference, but I don't know that it's man-made. |
| 0:18.0 | Experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to another to the point climate change update. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm Mormon Alney. |
| 0:26.7 | If you're like me, vacation season is also travel season. |
| 0:30.7 | I've got family all over the country. |
| 0:32.8 | Not only that, it's a big world out there. |
| 0:35.1 | And Mark Twain said travel is the best form of education. |
| 0:39.2 | America's airlines won't let you forget that it's also a lot of fun. It wasn't a typical |
| 0:43.4 | flight to Chicago. Documents were uploaded and projects were conquered. With time left to stream |
| 0:49.7 | the most bingeworthy shows, American Airlines. |
| 0:56.5 | United flies to more destination. most binge-worthy shows, American Airlines. Bonjour, how's it va? |
| 1:00.0 | United flies to more destinations than any other airline. |
| 1:05.5 | Fly Qatar Airways and experience the world like never before. |
| 1:07.1 | You, you, you. |
| 1:13.4 | Over 134 million of you chose to fly Southwest last year. That's what matters most to us. |
| 1:20.7 | So lots of us are planning to travel. Americans do that more than anyone else for business as well as for pleasure. But as you're making your personal plans, is the potential impact on climate change |
| 1:26.5 | adding a new calculation. |
| 1:29.4 | Kim Cobb is a scuba diver. |
| 1:31.9 | She's also visiting family in Italy right at the moment. |
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