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by 35bge57dtjku 3087 days ago
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2014/07/dri...
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> Consider a world where every human traveled by plane like you do and where also every human used recycling as you do. Would you prefer living in that world?

According to the above article, one would prefer that.

> The trend has continued so that in 2010, flying burned just 2,691 BTU per passenger mile—an improvement of 74 percent since 1970. That was 43 percent better than driving the average car, which gets about 21.5 miles per gallon (4,218 BTU per passenger mile)