We've got a week's holiday coming up and decided to keep it local. So we are planning a walking holiday in Western Ireland, and I'm investigating options to get there. We all know flying is bad, but is it that much worse than driving?
Turns out, CO2 wise, it's three times as bad. But, much cheaper and faster. Dilemmas...
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hey pippa
good to see that you seem to have done a detailed analysis with proper numbers. so, what have you decided to do in the end? and when you speak of offsetting plane emissions, how do you usually do that (i shall hope you do not resort to treeplanting outside of rainforests...)
keep up the good work!
benjamin
But what you haven't factored in is that there will be at least what, say 40 people on the flight?
So even if there were 4 people in each car that would be 10 cars, roughly 3x more CO2 than a plane.
Perhaps you should look at the figures that way and the plane is still going to fly if you don't use it anyway.
Its the same concept as catching the bus rather than driving in your car.
To be honest, you should cycle there! Its much more healthy too.
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