2. Airports, airlines, airplanes, air pollution…just say no

Measure your current pollution output: see calculators.

This could be the biggest cut to your emissions! Each person flying coach creates approximately one pound of CO2 per mile (similar to a car). Is taking that flight, with the accompanying killer pollution, absolutely necessary?

Jet engines burn a lot of kerosene and emit nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and soot, plus CO2.

Most airlines offer passengers a way to offset the pollution, but: “Offsets ‘do almost nothing to tackle the emissions from flying’,” said Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines.

So should-you-fly-or-drive?

Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, and other apps are available for video-calls; and virtual reality conference calls are in the works.

If you’re not in a hurry, Amtrak has some great views of the USA. Many of the photos on this site were taken from a train window. For more on train travel, see The Man in Seat 61.

And for shorter trips, why not the bus? Or try out your new EV: tips-for-your-summer-ev-road-trip

To see brief stories from non-flyers, go to flightfree.org or noflyclimatesci.

An airplane in the the sky is pollution in the sky. Which airports are the worst? Go to: airporttracker.

For more on airplanes, go to travel/tourism.