If you’re already making serious inroads into your personal
energy consumption and find Energy Saving Week’s guidance less
than challenging, then it’s time to consider less obvious ways
of curbing energy consumption. We’re often told the airline
industry is a major producer of carbon emissions and we’re urged
to either not fly or only fly if genuinely necessary. But flying
is not as ubiquitous as it sometimes seems to the well-heeled
west, nor is it as fundamental to modern life in almost all
areas of the world as an even bigger polluter – one that emits
twice as much carbon as the aircraft industry.Flying is not as
fundamental as the foundation of your house. Nor is it as
fundamental as the block walls or the mortar that holds the
walls together. Flying is not as fundamental as the kerb and
guttering you cross in your car as you leave your house, it’s
not as fundamental as the modern bridges you cross or pass under
on the way to work, nor is it as fundamental as the entire
building you work in. Flying is not