I quit my job as a pilot because of the climate crisis. But I love flying – and I know we can transform aviation | George Hibberd

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1. Of course we can! We can also find alternatives to fossil fuel, highly polluting chemicals, and wars – the question is if we ever will.

2. Also from The Guardian a couple years ago, a long-ish essay on whether or not flying will ever become green.

   [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/06/will-flying-ever-be-green-aviation-electric-planes-evtol](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/06/will-flying-ever-be-green-aviation-electric-planes-evtol)

   The short answer is essentially, “No.” At least aviation as we know it today, which last year set a record for number of passengers transported (5.85 billion).

   Small electric planes ferrying a few people short distances of a couple hundred miles at at time? Possibly. But the kind of long-distance world travel that people in the wealthy countries have become accustomed to?

3. 1% of world population emits 50% of CO2 from commercial aviation.
   [report] (https://share.google/7c28mB2cKLLEYpZI8)

   In 2023, aviation accounted for 2.5% of global energy-related CO2 emissions.
   [report] (https://share.google/y2sK8sOcyjsTOAXVJ)

   Does this mean, we don’t think its considerable enough to do anything about? Yea I guess so.

   Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grew by 51% from 1990 to 2021.
   Since 1990, the four emissions sources that have grown the fastest are: industrial processes, which grew by a massive 225%; electricity and heating (a subsector of energy), which grew by 88%; transportation (also a subsector of energy), which grew by 66%; and manufacturing and construction, which grew by 60%.
   [report] (https://share.google/vzkhXYNJlCcYbGU3j)

4. The ministry for the future addressed this in a very interesting way for anyone who is curious as to how we could adapt aviation to be greener.

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