[pf] European comment: Want to save the planet? Don't fly

· My wife and I discuss this, when she considers how to travel to Greens
conferences, or to attend seminars at out-of-town Universities.   D.

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/13200/newsDate/9-Nov-2001
/story.htm [all on same line in browser]
  is:
       Want to save the planet? Don't fly

MOROCCO: November 9, 2001

MARRAKESH - Some campaigners have insisted on going overland to Marrakesh's
U.N. conference on climate change, not because they are scared of flying,
but because they are worried about what aeroplanes do to the planet. 

Twelve campaigners from as far away as Norway and Finland spent up to three
days on trains and boats to attend two weeks of talks on a treaty that
would force richer countries to cut pollution.
"I've been worried for many years that these conferences contribute more to
the problem than to the solution," said Ben Matthews, an environmental
scientist who travelled from Norway.

"Carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft per passenger are about the same as
each person driving a car the same distance," he said while attending the
conference.

Matthews and others also travelled by land and sea to previous
environmental conferences in Rio and Kyoto. They are planning to go to next
year's summit in Johannesburg without recourse to an aeroplane.

"If you just fly into these conferences you get totally engrossed in
article 3.14 or whatever and you forget what climate change is about. I
would encourage people to travel overland. You have wonderful experiences,"
he said. 

REUTERS 

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