The Scarab Trust, May 2022

We can’t all live our lives without planes in the sky, but what might we be able to change to have a lower impact? A longer read…
Let’s imagine. Up until 100 years ago, we wouldn’t have to. Commercial air travel was just beginning to take off. Package holidays were unheard of. The concept of Concord hadn’t even been thought of. And the atmosphere was far freer of pollutants, carbon, and greenhouses gases than it is today.
Any aviation innovations that would make planes less polluting are still many years away, with technical options to make flying lower carbon just not yet in existence. The easiest way to reduce emissions currently is to encourage people to fly less…Continue reading >>
