Tuesday 20 April 2010

A world without air travel...

I am at home today because of the volcano... in a good sense (meeting cancelled). I'm sitting out on my balcony in the sun and I just spotted a plane making its way across the sky really high up. And I suddenly thought how nice it has been these last couple of days to see a beautiful big expanse of blue sky free from all those criss-cross trails and not to hear aeroplanes as part of the ambient noise of the city... I guess that's what it would be like in a world without air travel...

3 comments:

  1. Dad20 April 2010 at 17:07

    I can go with that... up to a point. If there were planes flying I would have been home last Friday. Not much fun being marooned here, despite the nice weather.

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  2. A Wiseman20 April 2010 at 22:33

    According to Gill: The grounding of 63,000 flights over the past four days has saved 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, more than the annual emissions of many developing countries.

    Having said that, I do feel for poor Dad and Ka unable to go on her holiday and my friends who were selected to do special acting workshops in New York...

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  3. spayce cowgirl23 April 2010 at 11:22

    Hey Lal,

    Waw that's a lot! Yes, I feel for people, too. It's clear there aren't that many viable alternatives to long-haul air travel, but maybe if the world slowed down a bit (in general terms) we could use trains more for the short-haul stuff...

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