From the article: Earth Day for Travelers
"Carbon neutral" is about buying carbon offsets to neutralize or offset pollutants. In plane travel, the major pollutant is fossil fuel. You can choose to pay a fee that goes to offset the effect of that fuel -- getting it, processing it, burning it -- on the environment, like by contributing to projects meant to help reduce global warming caused by burning fossil fuel. With some airlines, you can donate to those projects when you buy a plane ticket. Do you, or would you, pay that fee? Registration not required to respond. Why or why not?
No Way
- It's totally bogus, not a way to stop environmental damage, just a way to enrich undeserving people.
- —Guest Elanna
Yes
- Global warming is real, people! Our generation is paying for the "industrial age" stupidity.
- —Guest Judy Hirlan
no way
- plane tickets are expensive already. airlines should use some of the ticket price to pay their own way in carbon offsets.
- —Guest jake
Of course
- I always voluntarily contribute carbon offset fees, and I hope every airline has them soon.
- —Guest dckipling
