I finally saw An inconvenient truth. It's shivering! Pollution, contamination, extermination of the rain forest, fertilizers, pesticides, gas, oil, children dying on the streets, a polar bear floating on a tiny piece of melting ice, even high prices f Starbucks have something to do with the end of this planet.
Al_Gore is doing a great job. He is talking to everybody about this problem where all of us are big contributors. When the movie was over, I went to check the light switches, the recycle bin outside of the house, even the one in this computer, no leaking water anywhere, no heater on; well, I want to participate following all the instructions that Al Gore mention at the end of his movie.
It is amazing how far he has gone spreading his philosophy on saving the planet. He goes all over the planet. Even some main portions of the movie were shot inside the airplane, the real locations. He is doing a great job. No question about it.
However, his face denotes a little tension? a little anger? or is it only my assumption?
Brian Walsh wrote an article in Times Magazine where he talks about the amount of carbon dioxide that a person creates by flying.
(Click here to read it:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1584796,00.html)
According with Walsh's numbers, 5,200Lbs. of carbon dioxide per passenger are emitted ina round trip flight between New York City and Tokyo. There are approximately 15,700 miles in that flight.
So it comes to 0.33Lb of Carbon Dioxide/mile/person.
I was thinking, Gov. Schwarzenegger uses his personal airplane to fly from Los Angeles to Sacramento almost every working day. Of course, he pays for that. He doesn't take taxes money.
That is about 1100 miles a day times 5 working days = 5,500 miles times 0.33Lb/Carbon Dioxide = 363 Lbs/week.
363 Lbs/week times 52 working weeks = 18876 Lbs of Carbon Dioxide a year just Mr. Governor himself.
I think he travels with more people, how many would they be? 10? 5? 15?
OK, therefore, 18,876 times 10 passengers= 188,760 Lbs of Carbon Dioxide a year.
In 9/11 they said there are around 30 000 airplanes in the sky in a regular day. The control towers had to manage a great part of those airplanes. If that is true and we consider 100 people per airplane, traveling 1000 as an average, that gives us 361 billion Lbs of Carbon Dioxide a year.
I wonder if the term SECOND HAND FLIER is the right term or should I be called Second Class Flier?
I'm used to be minority, it's OK.
