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Air Travel and Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

Every day, the FAA's Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 A plane traveling from North America to London and back generates about 1.4 Between 1985 and 2000 passenger air traffic has doubled and air cargo traffic has grown even more quickly. As reported by Vox , airlines carried 4.3

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. But it wasn’t until 2000 that the idea really took off. The musician Grimes named one of her albums Miss Anthropocene.)