A lot of people who use air travel, perhaps up to half of all air travelers, do it just to reach their holiday destinations. In other cases, people who fly general aviation planes or helicopters just do so just for pleasure trips.
This only contributes to carbon emissions in our atmosphere with nothing useful gained in return.
It only adds more burden on the environment and to combat pollution which is preventing us from preserving the natural world. If emissions generated from vehicles were occurred in fewer numbers, it would make no difference to the environment as the emissions can easily be recycled by the plants.
But in such great numbers, travel only creates more build up of emissions in the atmosphere. With thousands of flights occurring each day and with world overpopulation rising, it becomes more difficult to restrengthen out environment.
Soon airliners will be paying emission taxes to countries they fly into. This is why I think a good start for the International Civil Aviation Organization to impose tax emissions on passengers who travel for fun or fly on planes for no other than personal pleasure.
The tax emissions can be used to grow plants or invest in developing more environment friendly resources that can substitute the current fuel resources we use to burn and keep planes flying.
But we should be careful of not working to produce greener resources that require the consumption of carbon emissions that creates more pollution than reduces.
According to a BBC Hardtalk episode that I saw, Qatar Airways had been doing just that. While it was the first airline to use emission free natural gas, it produced more emissions just to develop that natural gas.
This is the last thing we need emission taxes to be invested in. But regardless, emission taxes are needed from those who travel for pleasure or no useful reasons and should be enforced immediately to deal with the growing danger of carbon emission (particularly those generated from planes) and the threat they pose to our future.
