Must we quit flying to save the planet?

The Seattle Times ^ | 18 August 2007 | Mark Rice-Oxley, Christin Science Monitor

[Centurion2000]

For all you warmers out there, environmental activists (as the mainstream media likes to call them) are on their latest campaign to combat climate change – stop flying so much.

Kewl ... just took a 4500 mile road trip from Texas to Oregon and back again .... armed, packing, no TSA idiots and no baggage limits .... I can deal with this.

[OpusatFR]

“We are using up the last of the ancient caves just like we have almost used up the last of the ancient sunlight and winds...”

~and oxygen, don’t forget the ancient oxygen. Oh my!! And the melting glaciers and ice caps are releasing the last of the ancient oxygen!

Oh! The horrors!!!

[Ditter]

Last year we took two long driving trips. One from Houston to Montana and then from Houston to Las Vegas. We have driven from Houston to central Michigan 3 times. We love it. We grew up taking long driving trips with our parents in un air conditioned cars and before interstates. Our honeymoon was a driving trip to Key West Florida. We flew to Seattle and then put over 2000 miles on a rent car.

There is nothing like watching the country change and being under your own power, but travel when you are sick is a bummer.