Thanks for killing the planet, boomers!

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46. The Millenials I Know Fly Fly Fly - Around The World

around the country, like there's no tomorrow. My son's friends of rich families have traveled more in their short life than any one baby boomer I know. They talk a lot about the environment and buy organic food/clothes - but close their eyes to the damage Boeing does because that would mean their life of unlimited travel would come to a screeching halt.

Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Yes, it’s a plane.

On any given day odds are you'll see several contrails, some slowly spreading out to form high, cirrus clouds. Air travel just keeps growing—and the atmosphere is starting to notice.

The act of burning kerosene and other aviation fuels to power jet engines and propellers means carbon dioxide emissions, among other types of pollution. And that CO2, plus water vapor and the like is deposited high in the atmosphere, where it contributes most effectively to global warming.

The world’s nations have spent years trying to come up with a way to restrain air travel emissions. And this week the International Civil Aviation Organization, the ICAO, a U.N. body, agreed on a plan to do just that—that won’t take effect until 2020. Hence the flyby in Montreal of a chartered plane trailing the banner: "Can't Spell Procrastination without ICAO."http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=airplane-pollution-needs-to-descend-13-10-06