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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

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Yallow

(1,926 posts)
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 12:00 AM Nov 2015

Flying Is Murder - How Many Will You Kill? [View all]

A round trip flight from San Francisco to Boston would create 2,600 kilograms of greenhouse gases. These emissions accumulate in the atmosphere, causing heat buildup, which will eventually lead to the death of millions, if not billions of humans from global warming.

Maybe science can save them billions, but if is is not profitable for the .01% it won't happen.

Flying, or burning gas without purchasing offsets is the same as killing people.

Sorry, but I just watched the area I grew up in, and love, practically burn to the ground 2 years in a row.

Many of my friends lost their homes.

When the oceans are dead, and the ice has mostly melted, and 80% of the area we now grow food, will not grow food, this global warming will be taking lives at a rate we can't imagine.

So maybe you shouldn't fly whenever you feel like it, without purchasing offsets.

Maybe.....

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